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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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OHPI on SBS News
An interview with the Online Hate Prevention Institute’s CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, has featured on the SBS TV News accross Australia, as well as in an online articles on the SBS website. Dr Oboler’s comments appear in the News bulletin of Friday 17 August can be seen below. The story focuses on the Aboriginal Memes incident…
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PRESS RELEASE: Discussions with Facebook over Aboriginal Memes
Melbourne, Australia, August 15, 2012… On Monday August 13th the Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) sent Facebook a letter regarding a number of groups and pages on the Facebook platform whose sole purpose was the racial vilification of Indigenous Australians. In the letter, OHPI thanked Facebook for removing a number of the pages promoting ‘Aboriginal Memes’…
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OHPI’s YouTube Success reported in Argentina
OHPI’s efforts to clean up YouTube also made news in Argentina where the Jewish News Agency shared the story in Spanish. YouTube es “demasiado lento” en tomar acciones contra los videos de odio AJN.- El Consejo Ejecutivo del Judaísmo Australiano le pidió al sitio web que elimine el material de incitación que propaga la negación…
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YouTube ‘Too Slow’ Taking Action Against Hate Videos
Isreal National News reports on the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) calling on YouTube to remove hateful material relating to Australian Holocaust denier Fredrick Toben that has been uploaded to the site. They discuss The Online Hate Prevention Institute recently contacting YouTube after we had documented severe hate activity in cyberspace. Our CEO Andre…
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YouTube ‘too slow’ on hate videos
The Jewish Australian News reports on the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) contacting YouTube after the online broadcaster allowed posts of material relating to Australian Holocaust denier Fredrick Toben. They discuss OHPI’s recent report on hate-speech on youtube, which documented serious racial hate activity in cyberspace, and noted how one user in a single…
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YouTube ‘Too Slow’ Taking Action Against Hate Videos
By Rachel Hirshfeld in Arutz Sheva The Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) has called on YouTube to remove hateful material relating to Australian Holocaust denier Fredrick Toben that has been uploaded to the site, The Australian Jewish News (AJN) reported. ECAJ executive director Peter Wertheim told AJN that while three specific videos had been removed, “the same content remains…