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Facebook is stuck in denial
IT was back on October 16, 2008, when I gave advice a to Jewish activist about to be interviewed by a German newspaper on the topic of anti-Semitism in social media. “In Germany you have the added advantage that Holocaust denial is a criminal offence … what the Holocaust deniers do is illegal and threatens…
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Live radio interview on Facebook and Holocaust denial
Radio Sputnik Interviews our CEO Andre Oboler live on the 22nd of July 2018 about Facebook and Holocaust denial.
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‘Holocaust Denial is Still There, Facebook Still Pushes That Line’ – Campaigner
Sputnik International speaks to our CEO Andre Oboler about Facebook allowing holocaust denial comments on the platform, and the history of the platform’s attitude towards hateful content.
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Facebook under fire over Holocaust denial
Facebook is under fire for its position that Holocaust denial is acceptable content on the platform. OHPI’s CEO,Dr Andre Oboler, was interviewed live on Radio Sputnik in Moscow where he explained that Facebook’s position is about a decade old, what’s changed is that the world is no longer willing to accept it. Listen to the interview:…
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Holocaust Denial Sees New Dawn With Social Media
Vocativ discusses how a new Facebook-savvy generation is reviving old conspiracy theories that Jews invented the Holocaust. They spoke to our CEO Andre Oboler, who explained how “The alt-right and far-right have always been steeped in anti-Semitism, but with the election over the past months, we’ve seen that all inhibitions have faded away, people who were…
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OHPI in Bucharest for IHRA
This week OHPI’s CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, is in Bucharest as part of the Australian delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). IHRA is a unique intergovernmental organization which places political and social leaders’ support behind the need for Holocaust education, remembrance and research both nationally and internationally. At present IHRA is made up…
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Press Release: State of Holocaust Denial on Social Media
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a pioneering research by the Online Hate Prevention Institute “Measuring the Hate: the State of Antisemitism on Social Media” finds that of the three largest social media platforms, YouTube is the largest repository of content promoting Holocaust denial, followed by Twitter and then Facebook. The research, which tracked the…
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The hatred sown in the network: digital antisemitism
Jessica Palese “L’odio seminato nella rete: l’antisemitismo digitale” (The hatred sown in the network: digital antisemitism) smarknews.it, 28 January 2015 http://www.smarknews.it/press/lodio-seminato-nella-rete-lantisemitismo-digitale/ (Translated from Italian) Think that anti-Semitism is a phenomenon of the past to be entrusted to the memory of books, ie underestimate the virality of ideas and the power of the current digital media.…
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It’s time Facebook repents
Originally published as: Andre Oboler, “It’s Time Facebook Repents“, Jerusalem Post, October 3, 2014. On the morning of Rosh Hashannah a petition signed by 10,306 people arrived at Facebook Headquarters asking the company to change their policy on Holocaust denial. Facebook’s current position on Holocaust denial is that “the mere statement of denying the Holocaust…
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Normalising Holocaust Denial, Aboriginal Memes and more
The Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI), the national harm prevention charity dedicated to online hate issues, today warned that proposed changes to the Racial Discrimination Act will have the effect of normalising Holocaust denial, racist Aboriginal memes and more in social media. The charity’s CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, today highlighted the important role of the…