disinformation
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Follow up on antisemitic disinformation about the Westfield Bondi Junction attacker
In this briefing we explore antisemitic disinformation about the Bondi Junction attack in further depth, focusing on discourse from New Zealand and Australia.
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Antisemitic disinformation from the Sydney Knife Attack
On Saturday April 16, 2024, an attacker with a knife killed 6 people in the Westfield Shopping Centre in Bondi Junction in Sydney. The attacker was shot dead by a police officer. Police said on Saturday that the attacker was known to them and this was not a terrorist attack nor ideologically linked. The name…
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Elections, social media, and misinformation
OHPI’s Dr Andre Oboler met with Kate Thwaites MP, Chair of the Australian Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters to discuss problematic social media content in the context of elections.
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Disinformation in the Hamas-Israel War in October 2023
In yesterday’s briefing we provided background on the terrorist attack Hamas carried out inside Israel over the weekend and on the accompanying online antisemitism and in-person antisemitism that then went viral online. Today we look at disinformation and misinformation spreading on Twitter / X during the war. Example 1 This example has been fact-checked and…
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Alt-right Facebook memes pushed anti-Labor message
The Sydney Morning Herald talks to our CEO Andre Oboler about the role that social media can play in spreading political misinformation.
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Facebook and the ‘phenomenon of trust and ignorance’: La Trobe
ZDNET.com talks to our CEO Andre Oboler about the threat that cyber laws can pose to our civil liberties, and the ways in which lawmakers should construct these laws for Australian society.