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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.
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Responding to the unprecedented attack on Indigenous Australians through Facebook
Press release: Issued 4:20pm October 11, 2012 The Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI), an organisation dedicated to combatting online hate, released a major report today into Aboriginal Memes and Online Hate. The report documents an unprecedented online attack against Indigenous Australians and how racist content went viral through the use of social media and in…
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Facebook Forced to Pull Hate Page
The Australian Jewish News reports on Facebook agreeing to block an antisemitic fan page that calls for the destruction of Israel and brands Jews as fodder for gas chambers and mass murder. They talk to our CEO Andre Oboler, who reported the offensive images to Facebook immediately after they went online. Oboler explained that “What…
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Facebook Forced to Pull Hate Page
By Timna Jacks in the Australian Jewish News Bowing to pressure from the Human Rights Commission, Facebook has agreed to block an antisemitic fan page that calls for the destruction of Israel and brands Jews as fodder for gas chambers and mass murder. “Controversial Humour: Jewish Memes”, which was part fo a string of racist and antisemitic…
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Charge: Facebook Pages Spew Hate
Is there anything Facebook has determined to be sufficiently offensive that it will be removed? There is no scientific equation to determine what is hatred, but a Facebook picture of a smiling Anne Frank surrounded by the caption, “What’s that burning? Oh it’s my family” is an easy one. So is a Facebook picture of…
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Facebook Pages Spew Blood Libels, Attack Jews and Aborigines, Mock Anne Frank
The Jewish Press reports on the Online Hate Prevention Institute and our recent campaign to have Facebook remove hateful, antisemitic content from its platform. They quote our CEO Andre Oboler, who explains: “OHPI submitted documented complaints following the Facebook complaint protocol, and, true to their word, we received a response within 48 hours […] “It’s…
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Facebook sanctions Antisemitic content
Our CEO Andre Oboler discusses antisemitism on Facebook in the wake of Facebook sanctioning antisemitic content by dismissing complaints against clear cases of racist hate speech. Oboler argues that the failure to remove these posts takes the problem from one of an inability to quickly control user generated content, to a problem of institutional antisemitism. Oboler…