Publications
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Bike rage and the aggressive cyclist lobby
Over the last few days the OHPI Facebook page has received a number of comments relating to what is called “bike rage”. These comments come from an organised group of people who are trying to raise issues related to the rights of cyclists to use the roads. There has been significant commentary in the past…
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Rebutting The Conversation on online harm
We don’t normally publish replies to articles in the press, but a recent article in The Conversation” is so out of date in both its facts and its thinking that we felt the record had to be set straight. Frankly we expect more from The Conversation. This reads like a sponsored advertorial about the trust…
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Freedom with Responsibility (ICFOSS, 2014)
The text of this talk will be added after the talk is delivered, in the mean time, here are the slides. Freedom With Responsibility – ICFOSS
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Facebook Experiments with Australia
On December 11th the Online Hate Prevention Institute claimed a major win, the closure of the Facebook hate page “Take Back Australia”. This briefing is not about the page, but about Facebook itself. It highlights how after banning the page, Facebook partially circumvented their own systems, putting public safety in Australia at risk, to impose…
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The Indian response to @shamiwitness and the abuse of social media
There is a buzz here in India at the news that an Indian man, Mehdi Masroor Biswas, was arrested in the early hours of Saturday morning for operating the popular pro-ISIS Twitter account @shamiwitness. The account shared links to beheading videos and interviewed foreign fighters before they left to join ISIS and after they arrived.…
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WIN: Hate page Take Back Australia CLOSED
Update December 2014 – WIN! OHPI has been campaigning for the hate page “Take Back Australia” to be closed since the 2nd of October 2014. We’re pleased to report that on December 11th 2014, the day after International Human Rights Day, Facebook finally closed this vile page. On October 10th, prior to coming down, the…
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How Facebook responded to anti-Muslim Hate
Last year on International Human Rights Day, December 10th 2013, the Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) released a major report into the growing problem of online hate targeting the Muslim community. The report, titled ‘Islamophobia on the Internet: The growth of online hate targeting Muslims’, was made freely available via the OHPI website. In the…
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Hate among friends
Most of the online hate OHPI reports on is public content. The reason for this is that public content is able to go viral and can usually do far more harm than content shared between people privately or only between friends. It is because of the greater risk from public content that OHPI usually focuses…
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Lady Diamond discusses online antisemitism
Lady Diamond, Anti-Hate Campaigner at the Online Hate Prevention Institute, is back and she is tackling online antisemitism this time. In the third in our series of educational videos, Lady Diamond debunks the antisemitic conspiracy theories doing the rounds of social media including blood libel, The Elders of the Protocols of Zion and the Holocaust…
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How to report a Facebook comment
Whilst comments normally only display options to Like or Reply, hovering the mouse cursor over a comment will display a cross and tooltip which allows you to hide it and then report it. Comments must be hidden before they can be reported! Step 1 Hover the mouse cursor over the comment to show a cross…