-
Australian academic claims Facebook victory on Holocaust after a decade-long battle
jmedia.online reports on our CEO’s Andre Oboler’s campaign for Facebook to ban holocaust denial. The article reports on Oboler’s cautious optimism in response to Facebook changing their policies.
-
Facebook bans Holocaust denial
In a major announcement overnight Facebook has reversed a long standing policy and announced that Holocaust denial will now be banned on their platforms. The Online Hate Prevention Institute has been tackling Holocaust denial on Facebook and other platforms, and pushing the company to alter this policy, since we were founded in 2012. We strongly…
-
Long lived, now Facebook bans content that denies Nazi Germany’s tragedy of the Jewish Massacre
cyberthreat.id talks to our CEO Andre Oboler about Facebook’s policies on holocaust denial, and on the possibility that Facebook may be on the wrong side of history.
-
Facebook bans posts denying and distorting the Holocaust
jwire.com talks to our CEO Andre Oboler about Facebook’s recent ban of holocaust denial on the platform. Oboler talks about his past campaign for this change, and about the changing position and responsibilities of Facebook in our society.
-
Australian academic claims Facebook victory on Holocaust after a decade-long battle
The New Daily speaks to our CEO Andre Oboler about Facebook’s recent banning of holocaust denial on the platform. Oboler speaks about the past efforts to get Facebook to change their policy, and explains that he is waiting to see how the policy is implemented before celebrating.
-
128 Organizations Call on Facebook to Adopt Anti-Semitism Definition
The Media Line talks to our CEO Andre Oboler about an open letter, signed by over 125 organisations, which calls for Facebook to adopt the IHRA’s working definition of antisemitism when moderating hate-speech on the platform.
-
Push against antisemitism on Facebook
The Australian Jewish News spoke to our CEO Andre Oboler about the open letter, signed by over 120 organisations, which calls for Facebook to adopt the IHRA’s working definition of antisemitism in order to combat antisemitic content on the platform.
-
Facebook needs the IHRA definition
Our CEO Andre Oboler writes in The Australian Jewish News about an open letter, signed by 125 organisations, which calls for Facebook to adopt the IHRA’s working definition of antisemitism when moderating hate-speech on the platform.
-
Campaign against Holocaust denial, distortion and glorification
Launched on January 27, 2020, the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration and extermination camps at Auschwitz, our campaign against Holocaust denial, distortion and glorification will run until the end of February 2020. As part of this campaign we will be producing a number of briefings looking at examples of online Holocaust denial,…
-
Facebook is stuck in denial
Our CEO Andre Oboler writes for the Australian Jewish News about the need for Facebook to revise its outdated policy on holocaust denial.