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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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YouTube ‘too slow’ on hate videos
By Peter Kohn in the Australian Jewish News THE Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) has contacted YouTube after the online broadcaster allowed posts of material relating to Australian Holocaust denier Fredrick Toben. ECAJ executive director Peter Wertheim told The AJN that after the national roof body complained to YouTube last month, three specific videos…
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Press Release: Aboriginal Memes
Melbourne, Australia, August 9, 2012… The Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) congratulates Facebook user Jacinta O’Keefe, the Change.Org petition site and the Australian Human Rights Commission on yesterday’s removal of a Facebook hate page attacking Indigenous Australians. The online issue has been resolved; now Facebook needs to take action to ensure a real world response…
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JWire reports on OHPI’s Success
JWire reports on OHPI’s recent success with our report hateful content on youtube. The report documents serious racial hatred on YouTube, with one user in a single day uploaded 1710 videos, the vast majority of which were blatant hate speech. YouTube responded by closing the users account within 24 hours of receiving an advanced copy…
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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…