Publications
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Division and Disgust: Why Indians Became The Target of Australia’s Online Hate
On the 31st of August, tens of thousands of Australians took to the streets in various Australian cities to oppose immigration in Australia. Official promotional materials for the event singled out one group of immigrants in particular: Indians. Flyers for the events claimed that there have been “more Indians in 5 years, than Greeks and…
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Manchester Synagogue Attack: Yom Kippur 2025
A deadly terrorist attack at Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester on the morning of Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calender, has left two people dead and three more with serious injuries. The attacker was also killed, shot by armed police multiple times after he refused to stay down and was reaching for…
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Slam Dunks to Slurs: Anti-LGBTQ+ hate in NBA Online Culture
Recently we’ve noticed a normalised level of homophobia in online spaces related to the NBA. This isn’t surprising – historically the league, and professional sports in general, has had issues with homophobia. In 2007, John Amaechi became the first NBA player to come out as gay. Over the coming season, several NBA players would be…
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Annual Activity Reports 2024 & 2025
We’re please to share the Online Hate Prevention Institute’s annual activity reports covering the period 1 July 2023 – 30 June 2024, and 1 July 2024 – 30 June 2025. We have combined these into a single report.
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Cape Town
In August our CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, visited Cape Town to speak at the G20 Interfaith Forum. He participated in two panels, one focused on Ethical Issues for Artificial Intelligence and the other on “Positives and Negatives of Modern Communications: Addressing Disinformation and Related Social Tensions“. While in Cape Town he also delivered a seminal…
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Addressing Hate and Disinformation
On August 11th 2025 our CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, presented on a panel at the G20 Interfaith Forum in Cape Town, South Africa, on the topics of “Positives and Negatives of Modern Communications: Addressing Disinformation and Related Social Tensions”. Panel Description: Social media is revolutionizing community relations, including within and among religious communities. This session…
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Ethical issues for Artificial Intelligence
Dr Andre Oboler’s presentation at a panel for the G20 Interfaith Forum in Cape Town, South Africa, on the topics of “Ethical issues for Artificial Intelligence”.
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Gamer Gate Returns: Collective Shout edition
Collective Shout is an registered Australian charity that campaigns against the objectification of women and the sexualisation of girls. In July they launched an email campaign to the payment processors Mastercard and Visa to force game store Steam to remove games featuring rape or incest which are in breach of Australian classification laws. Steam removed…
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Conflation doesn’t help
There are real issues related to hate in Australia, but conflation doesn’t help. A July 31 2025 press statement from Islamophobia Register highlights real issues of Islamophobia and racism in Australian society, but also conflates these with things that may not be Islamophobia or racism.
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Fighting Talk: Online Hate-Speech in Mixed Martial Arts
In my spare time I do a martial art called Jiu Jitsu. Jiu Jitsu is a kind of grappling which was propelled into notoriety when Royce Gracie won the first ever Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) in 1993. The UFC was established to determine which martial art was most effective, and when Royce Gracie won UFC…