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Hate-Speech and Reporting Systems in Online Multiplayer Games
Much of OHPI’s recent work has been focussed on online hate on social media, but hate speech is also a prevalent issue in online multiplayer gaming. It is therefore important that these games have robust reporting mechanisms that can be utilised by users who encounter hate. The effectiveness of reporting systems in games can vary.…
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The Antisemitic Khazarian Conspiracy and Ukraine
By Agostino Pilia This briefing discusses the use of the antisemitic “Khazaria conspiracy” myth in relation to the recent events in the Russian-Ukrainian war in social media, a topic that OHPI has briefly touched upon over the past year (1,2,3). Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, antisemitic tropes…
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Data Visualisation Tests
Test page for data visualisation embeds. Intern Report Dashboard Looker Studio Dashboard Overall Removals https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/yameen.ahmed2102/viz/OverallRemoval/Pie Platform Removals https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/yameen.ahmed2102/viz/PlatformRemovals/Stacked100 Removal by Hate Type https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/yameen.ahmed2102/viz/RemovalbyHate/RemovalbyHate Hate Types Timeline https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/yameen.ahmed2102/viz/HateTypesTimeline/TimelineHateTypes Subcategories Timeline https://public.tableau.com/views/SubcategoriesTimeline/TimelineSubcategories?:language=en-GB&:sid=&:redirect=auth&:display_count=n&:origin=viz_share_link Posts by Platform https://public.tableau.com/views/PostsbyPlatform/Treemap?:language=en-GB&:sid=&:redirect=auth&:display_count=n&:origin=viz_share_link Posts by Region https://public.tableau.com/views/PostsbyRegion/PostsbyRegion?:language=en-GB&:sid=&:redirect=auth&:display_count=n&:origin=viz_share_link
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Islamophobia and antisemitism — why they are a shared challenge, not a competition
Derya Iner writes for the ABC in response to a recent article by our CEO, Andre Oboler. In the original article for the ABC, Oboler argued that antisemitism statistics were being misrepresented in order to downplay the problem when compared with anti-Muslim hate and Islamophobia. In her response, Iner warns against falling into an “us…
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Interview on CBC’s Weekend Morning Show for International Holocaust Remembrance Day
CBC Radio interviews our CEO Andre Oboler ahead of his key-note speech at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Oboler discusses the history of holocaust denial and the role it plays in antisemitism, as well as OHPI’s research into online antisemitism and Islamophobia in the wake of the October…
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Misogynistic Dating Gurus on Social Media
Accounts dedicated to giving dating advice to young men are common on social media. These accounts range from well-intentioned to deliberately provocative, and often function as advertisements for expensive courses that promise to dramatically improve men’s success with women. Many of these accounts are misogynistic. It is hard to claim that the same dating tricks…
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‘Magnificent’: Activist in ‘Awe’ After Attacks
The Advertiser recently reported on a former University of Adelaide student magazine editor who posted on social media praising Iran’s missile strike on Israel. The article discusses the former editor’s history promoting extremism, which includes tweeting out the Hezbollah flag and sauing that she was in “awe” after the October 7 attacks. She was previously…
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Annual Report 2023
Our annual activities report for the year ended 2023 is now available. (The financial report in the downloadable version is still pending final signoff.) Highlights OHPI published two major reports this year. Anti-Asian Racism in Social Media was produced in partnership with the Australian Human Rights Commission and Meta. Online Antisemitism in Australia 2023 was…
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Twitter needs to grow up
As part of celebrating our 10 year anniversary we updated to Twitter setting it to be a “professional profile”, an organisation or brand, and filling in as our birthday the the date we were incorporated. Twitter’s response was to immediately lock our account because apparently the rule that you have to be at lest 13…