Antisemitism 2.0
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Using Facebook to Fight Hate
The Online Hate Prevention Institute was alerted last week to sanctions imposed by Facebook against “They Can’t”, an anti-hate Facebook page. We believe “They Can’t” fulfills a valuable public service when it posts links to antisemitic YouTube videos so that fans of the page can flag those videos and bring them to YouTube’s attention. OHPI…
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Press Release: video briefing on Antisemitism and Holocaust denial
PRESS RELEASE Today the Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) released a new briefing which examines in more depth the images of antisemitism and Holocaust denial shown in our recent video. This is the first in a series of briefings, each of which will examine a different set of images from the video. The video itself features a…
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Video Briefing: Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial
This is the first part of a series of briefings related to OHPI’s campaign video “Stop Racism and Online Hate with OHPI”. This briefing focuses on the six images in the video which related to antisemitism or the Holocaust. The images have each been recaptured from the video to show when they appear. The video…
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Anti-Semitism in Social Media Includes Twitter
Originally published in English as: Manfred Gerstenfeld, “Anti-Semitism in Social Media Includes Twitter: Interview with Andre Oboler of Online Hate Prevention“, Israel National News (Arutz Sheva), September 8 2013. This interview is has also published in German, French, and Italian. Interview with Andre Oboler of Online Hate Prevention: “Twitter does not have a mechanism for flagging problem content.…
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Holocaust denial on Facebook – An Untold Story
Some online hate is so bad that we stop our regular activity to see it removed. The Holocaust denial page “The Untold History” was one such page. Social media is a powerful tool and that power should not be used to take content like this viral. Social media companies, that have such a major impact…
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OHPI at the World Jewish Congress
At the invitation of the World Jewish Congress, OHPI’s CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, delivered a special presentation on Online Hate Speech for a forum on Hatred and Antisemitism in Cyberspace at the meeting of the World Jewish Congress in Hungary. The presentation was part of a two part panel with colleague Dr Rafal Pankowski, Deputy…
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If you can’t Recognize Hate Speech, the sunlight can’t penetrate
This week the Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI), an Australian Charity which I have the privilege of leading as its CEO, released my major new report into Hate Speech on Facebook. OHPI seeks to facilitate a change in online culture so that hate in all its forms becomes as socially unacceptable online as it is in “real…
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The Hitler Shield: Mocking the Dead at Facebook
Facebook is sliding into moral decay. I would say slowly, but the pace of detrimental change appears to be increasing. The change between 2008 and today is truly shocking; the more facebook grows, the less regard it appears to have for other or for society as a whole. In 2008 Facebook’s terms of service included…