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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JWire reports on OHPI’s Success
Source: J-Wire Staff, Hate Prevention Institute meets with Success, J-Wire, 2 August 2012 The Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) has released a report documenting serious racial hatred on YouTube. The report highlights how one user in a single day uploaded 1710 videos, the vast majority of which were blatant hate speech. YouTube responded by closing the…
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Jewish Press reports on OHPI’s YouTube Report
Source: Jewish Press Staff, YouTube Removes Hundreds of Videos in Response to New Report on Online Anti-Semitism, The Jewish Press, 1 August 2012 The Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) on Wednesday released a report documenting extensive anti-Semitism and racial hatred on YouTube, prompting the popular video-sharing website to close the account of the most egregious culprit.…
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Algemeiner reports on Companies Action in response to OHPI and ADL
Source: Atara Arbesfeld, YouTube, Google and Apple Take Steps Towards Combating Online Anti-Semitism, The Algemeiner, 1 August 2012 Although hate and terror groups continue to thrive on the web, recent decisions made by Apple, Google, and YouTube were praised by anti-hate groups as positive steps towards preventing the spread of anti-Semitism on their platforms. A Hezbollah application that streamed videos…
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Jewish Press reports on OHPI’s YouTube Report
The Jewish Press discusses our recent youtube report, which lead to hundreds of videos being removed by the platform. The article reports on the extensive anti-Semitism and racial hatred on YouTube that was exposed by the report. as well as the corrective measures that the report recommends. They spoke to our CEO Andre Oboler, who…
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YouTube, Google and Apple Take Steps Towards Combating Online Anti-Semitism
The Algemeiner reports on recent decisions made by Apple, Google, and YouTube, which were praised by anti-hate groups as positive steps towards preventing the spread of anti-Semitism on their platforms. They discuss the Online Hate Prevention Institute’s recent report documenting one YouTube user who uploaded over one thousand videos in a single day “the majority of which were blatant hate…
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Press Release: Severe Hate Speech on YouTube
Melbourne, Australia, August 1, 2012… The Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) today released a report documenting serious racial hatred on YouTube. The report highlights how one user in a single day uploaded 1710 videos, the vast majority of which were blatant hate speech. YouTube responded by closing the user’s account within 24 hours of receiving…