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Media coverage & Press releases

The following coverage comes from: ABC News, ABC News Tonight, ABC Religion & Ethic, The Australian, 10 Daily, South China Morning Post, The Daily Dot, Audiatur Online, J-Wire, Buzzfeed News, Medium, J-Air Radio, The Australian Jewish News, The Media Line, SBS World News, ECAJ, The Sydney Morning Herald, Sputnik International, Griffith News, China Daily Global, The New Daily, Australian Financial Review, 7:30 Report, Business Insider, Illinois Times.

Other media coverage

• Sarah Jacob, Online hate has surged during the pandemic and solutions are not being funded, The Advocate, 6 November 2020
• The New Daily, Facebook’s big changes on hate speech – here’s why they won’t last, The New Daily, 21 October 2020
• Dr Andre Oboler, Tackling denial will be a challenge for Facebook, The Australian Jewish News, 22 October 2020
• Australian academic claims Facebook victory on Holocaust after a decade-long battle, JMedia.online, 14 October 2020
• Josh Butler, Australian academic claims Facebook victory on Holocaust after a decade-long battle, The New Daily, 13 October 2020
• Josh Butler, Australian academic claims Facebook victory on Holocaust after a decade-long battle, The New Daily, 13 October 2020
• J-Wire Newsdesk, Facebook bans posts denying and distorting the Holocaust, J-Wire, 13 October 2020
• Yuswardi A. Suud, Long Lived, Now Facebook Bans Content That Denies Nazi Germany’s Tragedy of the Jewish Massacre, Cyberthreat.id 13 October 2020
• Rebecca Davis, Oboler appointed as inquiry adviser, The Australian Jewish News, 8 October 2020
• J-Wire Newsdesk, Andre Oboler appointed as an adviser to inquiry into antisemitism in Victorian schools, J-Wire 30 September 2020
• Peter Kohn, Push against antisemitism on Facebook, The Australian Jewish News, 13 August 2020
• Andre Oboler, Facebook needs the IHRA definition, The Australian Jewish News, 11 August 2020
• Tara Kavaler, 128 organizations call on Facebook to adopt anti-Semitism definition, The Media Line, 8 August 2020
• J-Wire, Jewish entities worldwide institute 48 hour freeze on Twitter over hate speech, J-Wire, 28 July 2020
• Andre Oboler, Boycotting Facebook is not the answer, J-Wire, 19 July 2020
• Sophie Deutsch, Facebook ‘failing miserably’ on hate speech, Australian Jewish News, 16 July 2020
• Cameron Wilson, Indigenous Australians face sexual racism on dating apps: ‘The second he found out about my heritage, he was gone‘, ABC, 3 July 2020
• JNS, ADL joins with other civil-rights groups in calling for July boycott of Facebook, J-Wire, 1 July 2020
• J-Wire, The challenge for Jewish voices among progressives, J-Wire, 24 June 2020

• SBS World News Radio, Radio interview discussing calls for a new anti-racism strategy, SBS World News Radio, 11 June 2020
• SBS World News Radio, Radio interview discussing swastikas painted on the Cranbourne Golf Course and the dangers rising online hate during coronavirus, SBS World News Radio, 22 May 2020
• Josh Butler, Melbourne Neo-Nazi ‘Race War’ Group Expands To Sydney, 10 Daily, 21 May 2020
• Chin Tan, COVID-19 has prompted a spike in racist attacks. We need to start tracking them better, ABC News, 9 May 2020
• Lin Evlin,  Victims of coronavirus-fuelled racism in Australia are speaking out about its impact, SBS News, 17 April 2020
• J-Wire Newsdesk, A Yom Hashoah gift from Dymocks, J-Wire, 22 April 2020
• ECAJ, Dymocks removal from sale of editions of Mein Kampf, ECAJ, 22 April 2020
• J-Wire Newsdesk, ‘Governments advertising was supporting the hosting of terrorist manifesto’, J-Wire , 15 March 2020
• Josh Butler,  ‘Muslim Group Calls Out Facebook’s Failure To Combat Hate After Christchurch’, 10 Daily, 13 March, 2020
• ABC Radio National, Live ABC Radio Interview discussing what’s been done since the Christchurch attack to tackle online extremism, ABC Radio National, 13 March 2020
• Josh Butler, ‘Far-Right Extremist Groups Are Using Instagram As A Recruiting Ground’, 10 Daily, 3 March 2020
• Samira Sadeque, ‘Why is Instagram still hosting ‘Black Lives Don’t Matter’ accounts?’, The Daily Dot, 29 February 2020
• Daniel Rickenbacher, ‘Die andere Epidemie – Antisemitische Verschwörungstheorien und der kurze Weg zur Gewalt’, Audiatur Online, 28 February, 2020
• Josh Butler, ‘Christchurch Mosque Shooting ‘Inspiring’ Aussie Far-Right Extremists And White Supremacists’, 10 Daily, 26 February, 2020
• J-Wire Newsdesk, ‘Ramping up the battle against online hate’, J-Wire, 12 February 2020
• Viki Gerova, ‘’Playing Into The Hysteria’: How Racism Has ‘Mobilised Fear And Hostility’ Over Coronavirus’, 10 Daily, 6 February 2020
• J-Wire Newsdesk, ‘Online Hate Prevention Institute turns eight’, J-Wire, 23 January 2020
• Cameron Wilson, ‘Australia Won’t Ban Manifestos Similar To The Christchurch Shooter’s Because They Didn’t Go As Viral’, Buzzfeed News, 16 January 2020
• Ahmed Hassan, ‘Hate Speech or Free Speech: Can we regulate social media?’, Medium, 3 January, 2020
• Nikki Marczak, ‘Turning back the tide of antisemitic abuse of Jewish school students’, ABC Religion & Ethics, 25 November 2019
• Cameron Wilson, “Australia won’t censor 8chan unless it hosts the Christchurch video, says internet watchdog”, Buzzfeed News, 7 November 2019
• ABC News, Live TV interview on Facebook’s efforts to use Exit Australia to combat extremism, ABC News, 19 September 2019
• Talking to the Max, Live radio interview on countering online hate, JAir Radio, 4 September 2019
• ‘New ‘Anti-trolling’ laws to stop online abuse and harassment’, 10 Daily, 28 August 2019
• Josh Butler, ‘Blocking 8Chan just ‘baby steps’ in fighting racist extremism, Experts Say’, 10 Daily, 26 August 2019
• Live TV interview on the Prime Minister’s efforts to tackle extremism at the G7, ABC News Tonight, 26 August 2019
• Simone McCarthy , ‘Crackdown on Chinese accounts shows US social media giants becoming ‘more proactive’’, South China Morning Post, 25 August 2019
• Simone McCarthy, ‘Why Facebook and Twitter cracked down on Chinese state attacks on Hong Kong protesters‘, South China Morning Post, 23 August 2019
• El Paso terrorist attack and 8Chan, ABC News, 6 August 2019
• Mark Shliebs, ‘Australia foments far-right ‘great hate’’, The Australian, 10 July 2019
• Hana Imsirovic, ‘An interview with Andre Oboler: online hate speech’, Novinska agencija Patria, 29 June 2019
• ‘Facebook and France’, Newsfeed on TRT World / Foxtel Channel 652, 26 June 2019
• Pauline Rockman, ‘Joining world leaders in Shoah education’, Australian Jewish News, 14 June 2019
• ‘Australia joins the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’, J-Wire Jewish Australian News Service 4 June 2019
• Nigel Gladstone, ‘’We have more work to do’: Facebook battles hate, terror, child abuse’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 25 May 2019
• Nigel Gladstone and Max Koslowski, ‘Alt-right Facebook memes pushed anti-Labor message’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 25 May 2019
• Naomi Levin, ‘Antisemitic vandalism during this federal election campaign ? why is it happening? what can be done?’, ABC Religion and Ethics, 14 May 2019
• Corinne Reichert, ‘Facebook and the ‘phenomenon of trust and ignorance‘: La Trobe’, ZDNet, 3 May 2019
• ‘Rabbi blames US synagogue attack on social media ‘encouraging lone wolves‘, Sputnik International, 28 April 2019
• Alex Bruce-Smith, ‘Trolls target the woman behind the groundbreaking black hole image’, Ten Daily, 17 April 2019
• Myf Warhurst, Winning the war against online hate, ABC Radio, 15 April 2019
• Martin McKenzie-Murray, ‘Controlling social media’, The Saturday Paper, 13 April 2019
• Winning the war against online hate, Griffith News, 10 April 2019
• ‘Netizen Report: As water levels rise, Iran’s ban on messaging apps is slowing emergency relief for flood victims’, Advox, 5 April 2019
• Ariel Bogle, ‘Laws targeting terror videos on Facebook and YouTube ‘rushed’ and ‘knee-jerk’, lawyers and tech industry say’ , ABC News, 4 April 2019
• Luke Costin, ‘Anning in firing line from new FB ban‘, Australian Associated Press, 28 March 2019
• Karl Wilson, ‘Christchurch shootings fuel politics of race in NZ, Australia‘ China Daily Global, 25 March 2019
• Max Mason, ‘Social media giants face regulation as publishers, not just postmen‘, Australian Financial Review, 22 March 2019
• Alex Bruce-Smith, ‘After Christchurch, it’s impossible to separate the ‘okay sign’ from white supremacy’ Ten Daily, 22 March 2019
• Cyber security expert wants governments to take action on online extremism – shared globally via MSN News, ABC News, 19 March 2019
• ABC on the Christchurch terrorist attack and tackling online hate, 7.30 Report, 18 March 2019
• Antoinette Lattouf, ‘The Australian Nazi 2.0, and why we need to take the threat more seriously’, Ten Daily, 16 March 2019
• Benjamin Goggin, ‘Amazon and Hulu’s algorithms are recommending conspiracy theory films, and the consequences could be more serious than you might think‘, Business Insider, 10 February 2019
• ABC on far right extremism, 7.30 Report, 7 January 2019
• Alex Bruce-Smith, “The anti-terrorism encryption laws we can’t afford to get wrong”, Ten Daily, 22 November 2018
• Jenna Price, “Why you should argue with racists”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 6 November 2018
• “When you see or hear hate speech, don’t ignore it”, Grant News, 31 October 2018
• Alex Bruce-Smith, “George Soros: Why are Australians flirting with this American conspiracy theory?”, Ten Daily, 31 October 2018
• Melissa Fisher Paoni, “Understanding the harm in hate speech”, Illinois Times, 9 November 2018
• Andre Oboler, “Facebook is stuck in denial”, Australian Jewish News, 26 July 2018
• Live radio interview on Facebook and Holocaust denial, Radio Sputnik, 22 July 2018
• ‘Holocaust denial is still there, Facebook still pushes that line’ – Campaigner”, Sputnik News, 21 July 2018