Publications
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Revenge Pornography Study
The Online Hate Prevention Institute has been contacted by researchers at Bond University who are conducting a study into Revenge Pornography. While the Online Hate Prevention Institute is not involved in this research, we believe it is important and encourage participation in the survey by people who are 18 or older and who have experienced naked pictures…
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OHPI closes new Australian Nazi group Battalion88
A Facebook page promoting a new Australian based Neo-Nazi group, Battalion88 (page id: 452209554976265), was created two weeks ago an experiencing rapid growth. While claiming to be Australian, the page sought to transport American white supremacy to Australia and there were significant doubts about ti being locally run. Over the weekend OHPI documented, analysed, reported,…
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The lines of Laws and Norms
Some argue that the only solution to hate speech is more speech. We believe there is a need for three things to tackle hate speech: the removal of content which cross the line messages responding to things which don’t cross the line but are inappropriate messages promoting the positives values which hate seeks to undermine…
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How to identify a Facebook troll
A consequence of fighting online hate is that our Facebook page is often attacked by trolls. Some are looking to waste our time by flooding our page with irrelevant content. Others post unnecessarily incendiary content on our Facebook page with the aim of derailing a fruitful conversation. More often than not, the accounts are fake. We usually…
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National Contexts for hate speech
“There’s not a place for this kind of content on Facebook. Learning more about German culture and law has led us to change the approach” – Mark Zuckerberg speaking in Berlin 27, February 2016 on anti-Immigrant content. (BBC) This confirms what we have reported previously about a new push towards national approaches to hate speech which…
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Safer Internet for All #SaferInternetDay
Today is the Safer Internet Day. It is a day to talk about how to keep our children and young people safer on the Internet, and to encourage responsible use of online technology. We appreciate and understand the focus on children and young adults, when it comes to online environments. They are amongst the most…
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Report Hate Against Military Veterans
People can have legitimate stand against the use of military by nation states. However, such a stand should not lead to the promotion of hate of and discrimination against our military personnel and veterans. Unfortunately, the Facebook community page Gaia’s Dancing Indigo Children (Facebook ID: 828716663905465) is failing to make that distinction. The page belongs to an American new-age spiritual group.…
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The Guardian new comment moderation policy
The Guardian newspaper has announced a new policy for comments on their online publications worldwide (UK, US and Australia). If the article relates race, immigration and Islamophobia, the publications will not open its online comments section “unless the moderators knew they had the capacity to support the conversation and that they believed a positive debate was…
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Blackface and Social Media
Over the last few hours the picture below of what appears to be a couple of Indigenous Australians in traditional dress has been causing serious outrage on social media and started to be picked up by the news media. The reason for this outrage is that neither of the people pictured are Indigenous, further, their…
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Unbelievable responses on Holocaust Memorial Day
Here are some problematic responses we saw after publishing an article about Holocaust denial and our new report into antisemitism on social media on Holocaust Memorial Day yesterday. Promotion of Holocaust denial website The link in the first post points to a page by David Cole and the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH).…