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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’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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
Other media coverage
- Sarah Jacob, Online hate has surged during the pandemic and solutions are not being funded, The Advocate, 6 November 2020
- The New Daily, Facebook’s big changes on hate speech – here’s why they won’t last, The New Daily, 21 October 2020
- Dr Andre Oboler, Tackling denial will be a challenge for Facebook, The Australian Jewish News, 22 October 2020
- Australian academic claims Facebook victory on Holocaust after a decade-long battle, JMedia.online, 14 October 2020
- Josh Butler, Australian academic claims Facebook victory on Holocaust after a decade-long battle, The New Daily, 13 October 2020
- Josh Butler, Australian academic claims Facebook victory on Holocaust after a decade-long battle, The New Daily, 13 October 2020
- J-Wire Newsdesk, Facebook bans posts denying and distorting the Holocaust, J-Wire, 13 October 2020
- Yuswardi A. Suud, Long Lived, Now Facebook Bans Content That Denies Nazi Germany’s Tragedy of the Jewish Massacre, Cyberthreat.id 13 October 2020
- Rebecca Davis, Oboler appointed as inquiry adviser, The Australian Jewish News, 8 October 2020
- J-Wire Newsdesk, Andre Oboler appointed as an adviser to inquiry into antisemitism in Victorian schools, J-Wire 30 September 2020
- Peter Kohn, Push against antisemitism on Facebook, The Australian Jewish News, 13 August 2020
- Andre Oboler, Facebook needs the IHRA definition, The Australian Jewish News, 11 August 2020
- Tara Kavaler, 128 organizations call on Facebook to adopt anti-Semitism definition, The Media Line, 8 August 2020
- J-Wire, Jewish entities worldwide institute 48 hour freeze on Twitter over hate speech, J-Wire, 28 July 2020
- Andre Oboler, Boycotting Facebook is not the answer, J-Wire, 19 July 2020
- Sophie Deutsch, Facebook ‘failing miserably’ on hate speech, Australian Jewish News, 16 July 2020
- Cameron Wilson, Indigenous Australians face sexual racism on dating apps: ‘The second he found out about my heritage, he was gone‘, ABC, 3 July 2020
- JNS, ADL joins with other civil-rights groups in calling for July boycott of Facebook, J-Wire, 1 July 2020
- J-Wire, The challenge for Jewish voices among progressives, J-Wire, 24 June 2020
- SBS World News Radio, Radio interview discussing calls for a new anti-racism strategy, SBS World News Radio, 11 June 2020
- SBS World News Radio, Radio interview discussing swastikas painted on the Cranbourne Golf Course and the dangers rising online hate during coronavirus, SBS World News Radio, 22 May 2020
- Josh Butler, Melbourne Neo-Nazi ‘Race War’ Group Expands To Sydney, 10 Daily, 21 May 2020
- Chin Tan, COVID-19 has prompted a spike in racist attacks. We need to start tracking them better, ABC News, 9 May 2020
- Lin Evlin, Victims of coronavirus-fuelled racism in Australia are speaking out about its impact, SBS News, 17 April 2020
- J-Wire Newsdesk, A Yom Hashoah gift from Dymocks, J-Wire, 22 April 2020
- ECAJ, Dymocks removal from sale of editions of Mein Kampf, ECAJ, 22 April 2020
- J-Wire Newsdesk, ‘Governments advertising was supporting the hosting of terrorist manifesto’, J-Wire , 15 March 2020
- Josh Butler, ‘Muslim Group Calls Out Facebook’s Failure To Combat Hate After Christchurch’, 10 Daily, 13 March, 2020
- ABC Radio National, Live ABC Radio Interview discussing what’s been done since the Christchurch attack to tackle online extremism, ABC Radio National, 13 March 2020
- Josh Butler, ‘Far-Right Extremist Groups Are Using Instagram As A Recruiting Ground’, 10 Daily, 3 March 2020
- Samira Sadeque, ‘Why is Instagram still hosting ‘Black Lives Don’t Matter’ accounts?’, The Daily Dot, 29 February 2020
- Daniel Rickenbacher, ‘Die andere Epidemie – Antisemitische Verschwörungstheorien und der kurze Weg zur Gewalt’, Audiatur Online, 28 February, 2020
- Josh Butler, ‘Christchurch Mosque Shooting ‘Inspiring’ Aussie Far-Right Extremists And White Supremacists’, 10 Daily, 26 February, 2020
- J-Wire Newsdesk, ‘Ramping up the battle against online hate’, J-Wire, 12 February 2020
- Viki Gerova, ‘’Playing Into The Hysteria’: How Racism Has ‘Mobilised Fear And Hostility’ Over Coronavirus’, 10 Daily, 6 February 2020
- J-Wire Newsdesk, ‘Online Hate Prevention Institute turns eight’, J-Wire, 23 January 2020
- Cameron Wilson, ‘Australia Won’t Ban Manifestos Similar To The Christchurch Shooter’s Because They Didn’t Go As Viral’, Buzzfeed News, 16 January 2020
- Ahmed Hassan, ‘Hate Speech or Free Speech: Can we regulate social media?’, Medium, 3 January, 2020
- Nikki Marczak, ‘Turning back the tide of antisemitic abuse of Jewish school students’, ABC Religion & Ethics, 25 November 2019
- Cameron Wilson, “Australia won’t censor 8chan unless it hosts the Christchurch video, says internet watchdog”, Buzzfeed News, 7 November 2019
- ABC News, Live TV interview on Facebook’s efforts to use Exit Australia to combat extremism, ABC News, 19 September 2019
- Talking to the Max, Live radio interview on countering online hate, JAir Radio, 4 September 2019
- ‘New ‘Anti-trolling’ laws to stop online abuse and harassment’, 10 Daily, 28 August 2019
- Josh Butler, ‘Blocking 8Chan just ‘baby steps’ in fighting racist extremism, Experts Say’, 10 Daily, 26 August 2019
- Live TV interview on the Prime Minister’s efforts to tackle extremism at the G7, ABC News Tonight, 26 August 2019
- Simone McCarthy , ‘Crackdown on Chinese accounts shows US social media giants becoming ‘more proactive’’, South China Morning Post, 25 August 2019
- Simone McCarthy, ‘Why Facebook and Twitter cracked down on Chinese state attacks on Hong Kong protesters‘, South China Morning Post, 23 August 2019
- El Paso terrorist attack and 8Chan, ABC News, 6 August 2019
- Mark Shliebs, ‘Australia foments far-right ‘great hate’’, The Australian, 10 July 2019
- Hana Imsirovic, ‘An interview with Andre Oboler: online hate speech’, Novinska agencija Patria, 29 June 2019
- ‘Facebook and France’, Newsfeed on TRT World / Foxtel Channel 652, 26 June 2019
- Pauline Rockman, ‘Joining world leaders in Shoah education’, Australian Jewish News, 14 June 2019
- ‘Australia joins the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’, J-Wire Jewish Australian News Service 4 June 2019
- Nigel Gladstone, ‘’We have more work to do’: Facebook battles hate, terror, child abuse’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 25 May 2019
- Nigel Gladstone and Max Koslowski, ‘Alt-right Facebook memes pushed anti-Labor message’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 25 May 2019
- Naomi Levin, ‘Antisemitic vandalism during this federal election campaign ? why is it happening? what can be done?’, ABC Religion and Ethics, 14 May 2019
- Corinne Reichert, ‘Facebook and the ‘phenomenon of trust and ignorance‘: La Trobe’, ZDNet, 3 May 2019
- ‘Rabbi blames US synagogue attack on social media ‘encouraging lone wolves‘, Sputnik International, 28 April 2019
- Alex Bruce-Smith, ‘Trolls target the woman behind the groundbreaking black hole image’, Ten Daily, 17 April 2019
- Myf Warhurst, Winning the war against online hate, ABC Radio, 15 April 2019
- Martin McKenzie-Murray, ‘Controlling social media’, The Saturday Paper, 13 April 2019
- Winning the war against online hate, Griffith News, 10 April 2019
- ‘Netizen Report: As water levels rise, Iran’s ban on messaging apps is slowing emergency relief for flood victims’, Advox, 5 April 2019
- Ariel Bogle, ‘Laws targeting terror videos on Facebook and YouTube ‘rushed’ and ‘knee-jerk’, lawyers and tech industry say’ , ABC News, 4 April 2019
- Luke Costin, ‘Anning in firing line from new FB ban‘, Australian Associated Press, 28 March 2019
- Karl Wilson, ‘Christchurch shootings fuel politics of race in NZ, Australia‘ China Daily Global, 25 March 2019
- Max Mason, ‘Social media giants face regulation as publishers, not just postmen‘, Australian Financial Review, 22 March 2019
- Alex Bruce-Smith, ‘After Christchurch, it’s impossible to separate the ‘okay sign’ from white supremacy’ Ten Daily, 22 March 2019
- Cyber security expert wants governments to take action on online extremism – shared globally via MSN News, ABC News, 19 March 2019
- ABC on the Christchurch terrorist attack and tackling online hate, 7.30 Report, 18 March 2019
- Antoinette Lattouf, ‘The Australian Nazi 2.0, and why we need to take the threat more seriously’, Ten Daily, 16 March 2019
- Benjamin Goggin, ‘Amazon and Hulu’s algorithms are recommending conspiracy theory films, and the consequences could be more serious than you might think‘, Business Insider, 10 February 2019
- ABC on far right extremism, 7.30 Report, 7 January 2019
- Alex Bruce-Smith, “The anti-terrorism encryption laws we can’t afford to get wrong”, Ten Daily, 22 November 2018
- Jenna Price, “Why you should argue with racists”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 6 November 2018
- “When you see or hear hate speech, don’t ignore it”, Grant News, 31 October 2018
- Alex Bruce-Smith, “George Soros: Why are Australians flirting with this American conspiracy theory?”, Ten Daily, 31 October 2018
- Melissa Fisher Paoni, “Understanding the harm in hate speech”, Illinois Times, 9 November 2018
- Andre Oboler, “Facebook is stuck in denial”, Australian Jewish News, 26 July 2018
- Live radio interview on Facebook and Holocaust denial, Radio Sputnik, 22 July 2018
- ‘Holocaust denial is still there, Facebook still pushes that line’ – Campaigner”, Sputnik News, 21 July 2018