Publications
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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…
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How to Report a Facebook Post
Facebook’s post reporting depends on the content of the post in question. If the post comes directly from a person, is shared from another source, or includes a photo, the reporting options may vary. Step 1 When viewing a post on a Facebook timeline, move the cursor over the post to reveal a chevron (v shape)…
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How to Report a Facebook Page
Facebook pages are currently one of the few entities on the social media site which have a relatively intuitive and straightforward reporting interface. Step 1 Click the ellipsis to the right of the Message button to drop down the page interaction menu, then click Report Page. Step 2 Select I think it shouldn’t be on…
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How to Report a Facebook Image
Depending on how you are viewing an image on Facebook, the reporting button may or may not be initially visible or accessible. Whilst the report button varies by interface however, the reporting process itself is subsequently consistent. Step 1A: Timeline view When viewing an image as a post on a Facebook timeline, move the cursor…
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Facebook: Increased reporting is not the answer to cyberbullying
Recently we came across two articles that look at the content moderation on social media. The first relates to the lives of social media content moderators, the people who actually filter out user-generated content that doesn’t meet the social media standards. Most of this work has been outsourced to Asian countries. The article puts to…
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Racism in Australia has a History
In a post on OHPI’s page a user commented: “So many Australian residents are either too young to know or haven’t lived here long enough to know what a racism free Australia felt like 30 or so years ago. I feel we imported the racism and put up with it for a long time but…