anti-Aboriginal hate
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NAIDOC WEEK IN FOCUS – The Online Hate Spiral Targeting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
NAIDOC WEEK IN FOCUS Content Sensitivity Warning This briefing discusses the deaths of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in police custody, including specific cases involving fatal violence. It contains direct examples of racist, dehumanising, and hateful online commentary, reproduced for analytical purposes. Readers are advised that names and images of Aboriginal and Torres Strait…
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A decade of action on online hate – reflecting on 2012
It may now seem such a routine part of our life, but Social Media platforms have been with us less than 2 decades. myspace was created in 2003, Facebook in 2004, and Twitter in 2005. At first, these platforms seemed a quirky and relatively harmless innovation, but within a few years they had already developed…
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Today’s News: “Facebook Bad”
There is a tug of war going on within Facebook as they both lead the way in mitigation efforts, and persist with a corporate culture that seems to regularly make the wrong call, putting profits before people and undermining their own efforts. We need to support those positive efforts while pushing them to address the…
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‘Racist rot’: Neo-nazi’s slammed for KKK ritual on sacred land
SBSs reports that, over the weekend, 38 young white men as part of a far-right extremist organisation assembled at Gariwerd – also known as the Grampians range – in regional Victoria. The special Gunditjmara country, located about 230km north-west of Melbourne, is described as central to the Dreaming story, particularly to the Djab Wurrung and the Jardwadjali people as…
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More Racism on Twitter
As part of our March 2020 campaign tackling racism against Indigenous Australians we have looked at Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. In this article we look at a second problematic Twitter account. The account “The Abowaffen Division” (@abodivision) is another fake Aboriginal account, this one more overtly linked to the far-right and more specifically the Alt-Right. With this fake…
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Aboriginal Memes on Facebook
We first tackled online racism against Indigenous Australians back in 2012. At that time, the problem was on Facebook – as a number of pages had been created encouraging the creation and sharing of racist memes targeting Indigenous Australians. After a bumpy start, Facebook has got far better at tackling this problem, but the issue…
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Campaign on Racism against Indigenous Australians
Through March 2020 the Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) will be running a campaign tackling racism against Indigenous Australians. While we’ve been working on this problem since we were established 8 years ago, this is the first month long campaign proactively tackling the problem. Join us by taking action! You can help the campaign in…
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Australia Day, African Youth and the Far Right
The Voice of Australia is a page that describes itself as “against animal cruelty – particularly Halal Ritual Slaughter & the Islamisation of Australia”. It’s grown by 1% to 26,343 likes over the last three weeks. The page has been posting defensive messages attacking the idea it is related to racism or terrorism, while at the same…
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The far-right trolls
We’ve just banned the second person from the Online Hate Prevention Institute’s Facebook page since the #DebateWithoutHate campaign started 5 days ago. In that time the main article has been liked / shared over 1,300 times on Facebook. As we explained in our article about the first ban, under our “no platform policy” we ban…
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OHPI on Indigenous Issues
Sophie, a 4th year education and Aboriginal studies teacher at the University of Sydney, was compiling a set of resources addressing racism of Aboriginal people. She wrote to us saying, “I really like your website and the ease of use it offers to students” and has a few questions the Online Hate Prevention Institute and…