The extraordinary events in the United States overnight deserve careful reflection both in the US and here in Australia. It’s clear that something has gone very wrong, social media is involved, democracy was put...
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Nov 2020On Friday 20 November our CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, served as the panelist for Civil Society in the UN’s 13th Session of the Forum on Minority Issues. The session this year focused on “Hate...
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Oct 2020By Dr Andre Oboler Having banned Holocaust denial and distortion last week, Facebook now faces the challenge of applying that policy and cleaning up over sixteen years of hate. The challenge comes as Facebook...
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Oct 2020In a major announcement overnight Facebook has reversed a long standing policy and announced that Holocaust denial will now be banned on their platforms. The Online Hate Prevention Institute has been tackling Holocaust denial...
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Oct 2020The Online Hate Prevention Institute welcomes Facebook’s move to ban QAnon. The QAnon movement, which started on 4chan and 8chan (see our Halle report for more on them), has been rapidly absorbing and spreading...
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