anti-Muslim
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Live ABC Radio Interview discussing what’s been done since the Christchurch attack to tackle online extremism
On March 13th 2020, our CEO Dr Andre Oboler went on ABC National radio to discuss the Christchurch attack, and the effect that it has had on efforts to combat online extremism.
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Muslim Group Calls Out Facebook’s Failure To Combat Hate After Christchurch
10 Daily reports on Facebook’s failure to combat hate after Christchurch, which was recently highlighted by a Muslim group. The article references the Online Hate Prevention’s work in the space.
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Christchurch Mosque Shooting ‘Inspiring’ Aussie Far-Right Extremists And White Supremacists
10 Daily reports on the Christchurch shooting and the effect that it has had on encouraging extremists and white supremacists. The article talks about the Online Hate Prevention Institute’s work in this space.
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After Christchurch, it’s impossible to separate the ‘okay sign’ from white supremacy
10 Daily reports on the Christchurch shooting and the white supremacist “okay” sign that has since gained in popularity. They talk to our CEO Andre Oboler about online extremism.
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Bourke Street Attack November 2018
This article is referred to in OHPI’s Annual Report for the 2018 Financial Year. Return to the Report. Background At around 4:10 pm on Friday the 9th of November a car was driven into shops on Bourke Street in Melbourne. A man set the car on fire and proceeded to attack members of the public with…
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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 on African Youth
Far Right groups have jumped on the bank wagon of anti-African sentiment. Some are expressing it as anti-refugee sentiment, other as pure racism against people with dark skin, while a third group seek to present it as another version of “Muslim extremism”. Here’s a few examples of what we’ve seen: Case 1: Racism The Reclaim…
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Car Attack in Flinders Street Melbourne
On December 21st 2017 a car deliberately drove through pedestrians outside Flinders Street Station in Melbourne. 19 people were injured and one later died in hospital. The driver was known to police and had a history of mental health issues and drug abuse. An Australian citizen of Afghan background, he had come to Australia as…
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Ultra Conservative Homophobia
After launching our #DebateWithoutHate campaign a Facebook post about the campaign received a number of problematic comments. We documented some of these comments and explained why they were problematic in our first article of hate examples from this debate. This second article looks at comments from one person which have gone so far cross the…
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Can reporting news be hate?
Earlier today OHPI received an e-mail with the message “Very Offensive Y tube video , pl stop this hateful obnoxious video”. It linked to a YouTube video titled “Indian Hindus Force Muslims To Eat Cow Poop & Urine in Ramadan”. The video was posted by a user called “A Muslim” and it’s description is: Hindus…