Publications
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Right Winged or Racist? What Do You Think?
The Facebook page, NSW Conservative Support Page (ID: 449356591762452), was created on June 13, 2010. It has 1,364 likes and 1,398 followers. The page promotes right winged political views and regular xenophobia and racism. See the page live and report it The NSW Conservative Support Page has regularly made racist and xenophobic remarks under the…
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Anti-Muslim Groups Turn Their Focus to Chinese and Asian Australians
The page, Australians against Sharia 2 (ID: 1849829035265159), was created on March 15 2017. It currently has 422 people who follow the page and 409 people who have liked it. According to a post they made on November 17 2018, this is their second page (hence the number 2 in their name) as their first…
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Crazy Conspiracy Theories: COVID-19, Wuhan and the Obamas
New conspiracy theories connected with COVID-19 are appearing daily. Some are being seriously discussed by serious news sources and personalities, causing them to appear more believable and to spread further. The spread of these theories is a result of the constantly changing news cycle, along with the fact that most people are at home with…
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The Coronavirus Conspiracy Theorist and Holocaust Denial
The Online Hate Prevention Institute recently started a fundraiser to tackling antisemitism – our focus area for the month of June. Just as we experienced with our March campaign on Islamophobia, announcing the campaign drew the haters out of the woodwork. One of them promoted Holocaust denial through their comment, but a look at their…
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The Absorption of Antisemitic Narratives
We recently launched a fundraiser to tackle antisemitism in support of our June campaign. This is part of a series of campaigns for 2020 bringing a focus to 11 different kinds of hate as well as a special focus on Coronavirus. In less than 36 hours our announcement of the campaign received 187 reactions (likes…
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Campaign Launch Incites Anti-Muslim Comments
A barrage of hate-filled comments appeared following OHPI’s Facebook post announcing our Campaign to Tackle Online Islamophobia. The post was made early March and had announced our April campaign. The post also sought donations to increase the scope of the campaign. The Facebook post generated over 500 comments in a 2 week period. Many were…
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None so blind
An English proverb says “There are none so blind as those who will not see. The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know”. This proverb is documented as far back as 1546 in John Heywood’s “Dialogue of Proverbs II” as, in old English, “Who is so deafe, or so…
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Coronavirus Incident Sparks Islamophobia
A single incident sparked a large number of Xenophobic and Islamophobic responses following a viral video captured in early April. The video showed a 25-year old Australian-Muslim woman spitting in a policeman’s face, later coughing on him, and claiming she was due for Coronavirus testing. Counter Jihad and anti-Muslim groups used the video as an…
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Anxiety, Fear, Misinformation & Xenophobia During the Coronavirus
In the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic, social media has become rife with hatred, conspiracy theories and misinformation regarding the spread and origin of the virus. In times of great uncertainty and fear, hate again minorities often rises. In the current situation of Coronavirus, platforms have seen a sharp uptick in hate speech and…
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Coronavirus and the Trolls
Many of those who usually engage in online trolling are now, like everyone else, stuck at home and spending much of their time online. COVID-19 related trolling has been added to their repertoire. This account is a particularly obvious case of trolling as it seeks to pick fights with different users and communities. In this…