Publications
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Aboriginal Memes and Online Hate
The Online Hate Prevention Institute is pleased to announce the release of a major new report into Aboriginal Memes and Online Hate. The press release can be viewed here (or seen below) and the report may be downloaded here (or seen below). PRESS RELEASE: Responding to the unprecedented attack on Indigenous Australians through Facebook The…
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Facebook Discourages Reporting
Why would Facebook let users go through a long process to report something, only to tell them in the final step that they should have used a different process and their complaint will now not be accepted? OHPI considers this a serious design flaw which may discourage the reporting of serious complaints. Hate speech can…
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Facebook’s New Reporting Tool
Facebook have updated their image reporting tool. The new tool has more steps to it, and by default the “report to Facebook” option isn’t selected. It also prompts users to check the community standards before reporting content. Most interesting is the final message after something has been reported, this message provides an apology for the users experience.…
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Facebook sanctions Antisemitic content
The social media platform Facebook is in now eight and a half years old. For over half that time I have been researching and writing about Facebook’s potential to spread antisemitism and other forms of hate. I warned of the potential danger in my first Jerusalem Post op-ed back in 2008. Sincethen various incidents have arisen, and when Facebook went public I dared to hope this…
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Facebook Fails Review
(Updated 14 September 2012) OHPI recently reported a number of antisemitic images to Facebook using the regular reporting facility available to all users. Every one of our reports was swiftly reviewed and swiftly rejected. Formal complaints in Australia have let to some of the hateful content being blocked to Australian users, however, the content remains…
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OHPI Presentation on Aboriginal Memes
The following presentation was presented at the “Owning Racism – Can we talk?” symposium at Melbourne’s Immigration Museum on 23 August 2012.
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Facebook gets it wrong on Aboriginal Memes
Current status (Updated 24 August 8:30am, Melbourne time) A new Aboriginal Memes page was created on August 23rd, the day before the launch of Australia’s National Anti-Racism Strategy. It seems some people just don’t get it. If you want to put a stop to it, please report the page. Details are on OHPI’s Facebook page. On…
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Multiple and Severe Hate Speech on YouTube
The primary aim of this report is to demonstrate and discuss the problem of multiple and severe instances of hate speech on the YouTube platform. Aspects of this analysis apply equally to other forms of social media content and to other platforms. The report both describes the problem and provides some recommendations to mitigate and…
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OHPI Submission on Online Safety
At the invitation of the Federal Liberal and National Parties, the Online Hate Prevention Institute participated in a round table and made a written submission as part of the Coalitions Review of Online Safety for Children. OHPI’s submission note that while cyberbullying is recognized as a significant online threat to children, it has a fairly narrow…