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‘Racist rot’: Neo-nazi’s slammed for KKK ritual on sacred land
SBSs reports that, over the weekend, 38 young white men as part of a far-right extremist organisation assembled at Gariwerd – also known as the Grampians range – in regional Victoria. The special Gunditjmara country, located about 230km north-west of Melbourne, is described as central to the Dreaming story, particularly to the Djab Wurrung and the Jardwadjali people as…
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Training Exercise
This material is provided as part of an activity for the “The Rising Online Hate from COVID-19” training provided by the Online Hate Prevention Institute in conjunction with the Council of Christians and Jews (Victoria) and the La Trobe LawTech group at La Trobe University. Part 1 Each of the Facebook posts below is from…
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Monthly Campaigns for 2020
As we enter our 9th year tackling online hate extremism we are pleased to announce a new approach with monthly campaigns focused on specific areas of online hate. While we will continue to address these and other areas of online hate throughout the year, our focused campaigns will enable forward planning, opportunities for volunteers and…
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HATE AND VIOLENT EXTREMISM FROM AN ONLINE SUBCULTURE: The Yom Kippur Terrorist Attack in Halle, Germany
A new form of terrorism emerged in 2019. Incubated by a globalised, toxic, anonymous online culture, incitement to hate now all too frequently leads to violent extremism that manifests offline, and has cost the lives of dozens of innocents, including children. Participants and spectators of this newly forged online culture encourage, support and celebrate the serious crimes…
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Antisemitic vandalism during this federal election campaign ― why is it happening? what can be done?
ABC News cites our CEO Andre Oboler on how to prevent abusive and hateful content on social media and the difficulties involved in regulation.
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After the Christchurch massacre, the Coalition and Labor passed a bill prohibiting the sharing of abhorrent material on social media, but experts argue the new law will achieve little.
The Saturday Paper talks to our CEO Andre Oboler about the Coalition and Labour passing a bill prohibiting the sharing of abhorrent material on social media.
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Attending the Welcome to the Govenor of Victoria
On August 30, OHPI attended the Celebration of Welcome to the Govenor of Victoria, Her Excellency, the Honourable Linda Dessau AM at the Melbourne Hebrew Congregation. She is the first woman and the first Jew appointment to the role. She spoke about her Jewish upbringing including some early incidents of antisemitism. A school principal once called…
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External resources on Serious Trolling
Trolling is defined as writing something with the intention of provoking an angry or emotional response out of your target — and, in the process, attracting attention and reframing a debate in a way that is more favourable to one’s own viewpoint. Within reason, trolling is not hate. Unfortunately, given the power that anonymity gives to trolls,…
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Report Facebook Page “Gays should be fit and muscular”
A short while ago, a supporter drew our attention to the Facebook page “Gays should be fit and Muscular #fpsbg” (ID 500634340092240) which has 321 supporters and had been online since June 6, 2015. As the name suggests, it is a body shaming site targeting overweight gay men. In particular, it targets the “Bear…
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Win: Removal of Yorkshire Anti Communists Facebook Page
A few days ago, an antisemitic Facebook community Yorkshire Anti Communists (ID 104387733236839) was reported to our online hate reporting tool, FightAgainstHate.com. It had been online since June 22, 2015 and had amassed 375 supporters in the short period. We documented the contents of the Page and reported it to Facebook. We are pleased to…