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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PRESS RELEASE: Antisemitic Jew Meme
The Online Hate Prevention Institute, an Australian charity combating online racism and other forms of online hate, has today released a significant new report into antisemitism. The report examines an attempt to make an Antisemitic cartoon of a Jew, originally created for neo-Nazi websites, part of mainstream online culture. If such a move was successful…
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Deadly Vibe Magazine: Hate speech ‘not OK’
Source: Hate speech ‘not OK’, Deadly Vibe Magazine, January 31 2014 With the growth of online media, the Online Hate Prevention Institute is one organisation that’s doing its best to help people experiencing hate, racial and religious discrimination or bullying online. The Institute has developed a program designed to keep social media platforms responsive to unacceptable pages…
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Deadly Vibe Magazine: Hate speech ‘not OK’
Deadly Vibe Magazine talks to our CEO Andre Oboler about the Online Hate Prevention Institute’s recently developed program designed to keep social media platforms responsive to unacceptable pages and posts. The independent system will allow OHPI to monitor response times to such issues, and includes all types of hate speech of Indigenous, ethnic and religious…
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OHPI on National Indigenous Radio Service
Yesterday OHPI was interviews by the National Indigenous Radio Service on the issue of Aboriginal Memes. The news grab, which was also posted online, ran: The Online Hate Prevention Institute says there are flaws in Facebook’s processes in removing racist content posted to the social media site. The comments come after a page was taken…
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OHPI on National Indigenous Radio Service
OHPI was recently interviewed by the National Indigenous Radio Service on the issue of Aboriginal Memes. Our CEO Andre Oboler explained that there are flaws in Facebook’s processes in removing racist content posted to the social media site. These comments come after a page was taken down vilifying Indigenous Australians, with references to poverty and…
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News.com.au on Aboriginal Memes 2014
Source: Rod Chester, Facebook shuts vile Aboriginal memes page, despite earlier claiming it didn’t constitute ‘hate speech’, News.com.au, January 27 2014 FACEBOOK has shut down a racist Facebook page which vilified Indigenous Australians with revolting jokes and illustrations, despite earlier telling a complainant the page was acceptable under its ‘community standards’ policy. The Aboriginal Memes 2014 page…