The Online Hate Prevention Institute regularly appears in the media. Media organisations wanting a comment can contact us, please provide your work e-mail when doing so.
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.
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Loving Nazis and Hating Muslims
Our CEO Andre Oboler writes for the Australian Jewish News on the problem of a small number of Jews vilifying Muslims online, and linking up with neo-Nazis to do so, which is of particular relevance in light of recent news around the burning alive of a Palestinian child in Israel. The article highlights how a…
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Islamophobia Watch mentions OHPI
June 25, 2014: Bob Pitt, The Bendigo Mosque: exporting hate to regional Victoria (republishes OHPI briefing), Islamophobia Watch (blog).
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Racial Violence allowed on Facebook
June 18, 2014: Expo Today (Swedish Media) mentioned OHPI in an article on how Facebook allows incitement to racial violence go unchecked on its platform. http://expo.se/2014/uppmaningar-till-rasistiskt-vald-tillats-av-facebook_6550.html Facebook group “We who do not want to party with immigrants” do not violate Facebook’s “community rules”. That answer got a user who responded to the group which calls for…
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The dark side of the net
June 8, 2014: Chris Johnston, The Dark Side of the Internet, www.theage.com.au (Fairfax Media), http://www.theage.com.au/national/the-dark-side-of-the-net-20140607-39qe8.html Earlier this year when Garry met Sally, Garry was asked a simple question – ”How are you coping with the trolling?” He says it was a cathartic moment because he thought his campaign was the only one under attack. Garry…
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The ups and downs of an anonymous, anti-fascist life
June 4, 2014, Andy Fleming, The ups and downs of an anonymous, anti-fascist life, Overland, https://overland.org.au/2014/06/the-ups-and-downs-of-an-anonymous-anti-fascist-life/ I soon learned that Dandakaranya, the forest I was about to enter, was full of people who had many names and fluid identities. It was like balm to me, that idea. How lovely not to be stuck with yourself, to…
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OHPI on IBA News
The Online Hate Prevention Institute’s CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, discussed online antisemitism with the Israeli Broadcasting Authority in the aftermath of the Brussels Jewish museum shooting. The segment appeared on the TV news in Israel (mostly in Hebrew).