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Meeting with the Attorney General
Chairman Martin Splitter and CEO Dr Andre Oboler met with Australia’s Attorney General Mark Dreyfus to discuss the alarming rise in online hate.
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LISTEN: Antisemitism and anti-Muslim hate after October 7, OHPI on ABC Radio National
This morning Dr Andre Oboler, the CEO of the Online Hate Prevention Institute, spoke with Patricia Karvelas on Radio National Breakfast about our new report on on online antisemitism after October 7, and our forthcoming anti-Muslim hate and anti-Arab racism report.
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Right wing extremism in 2024
The Online Hate Prevention Institute collected over 4,000 items of hate across ten social media platforms. This articles looks at right-wing extremism in this data.
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Documenting a Moment in Hate
The Online Hate Prevention Institute (Australia) and Online Hate Task Force (Belgium) are “documenting a moment of hate” as both antisemitism and Islamophobia rise sharply.
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Burgertory, online incitement, and StopZionistHate
In the morning of Friday 10 November 2023, the Caulfield branch of the hamburger chain Burgertory burned down. Police have said the fire was suspicious, but that it was not a hate crime. The store is part of a chain owned by a Palestinian man who has been in the news recently after video spread…
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Hamas-Israel War and Islamophobia
There is a lot of data and discussion about the sharp rise in antisemitism, both in person and online, since the October 7th Hamas terrorist attack. Online Islamophobia, and anti-Arab racism, has also been rising but there is less data on this and some who are outright denying it exists. This article provides and discusses…
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A moment in October 2023
The world in general, and Australia in particular, are having a moment. For many it is a moment of frustration, disillusion, and deep concern. There are real world events shaping this moment, the referendum on the voice, the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel and the resulting war, and other local and global events. A common…
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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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Islamophobic Pages and the Targeting of Mosques
This briefing examines how far right Islamophobic pages have turned their attention to targeting mosques in the wake of the recent COVID 19 pandemic. SIOC (Stop Islamization of Canada) The page SIOC (Stop Islamization of Canada) (ID: 113065962075296 ) is liked by 10,621 people and has 10,962 followers. It was created on 16/07/2010. The page…
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Anti-Muslim Groups Turn Their Focus to Chinese and Asian Australians
The page, Australians against Sharia 2 (ID: 1849829035265159), was created on March 15 2017. It currently has 422 people who follow the page and 409 people who have liked it. According to a post they made on November 17 2018, this is their second page (hence the number 2 in their name) as their first…