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Ben Garrison on Trolls
“This page wasn’t removed. We reviewed the page you reported for harassment. Since it did not violate our community standards, we did not remove it. Thanks for your report.” This is the message I received after reporting a hate page on Facebook. Near the top of the hate page was a statement that encouraged the…
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Wrongful unpublishing – The Alex Levin Art Page
In his capacity as co-chair of the Online Antisemitism Working Group of the Global Forum to Combat Antisemitism, OHPI’s CEO (Dr Andre Oboler) wrote to Facebook today for clarification about the unpublishing of Alex Levin’s art page. The page appears to have been wrongly removed based on claims it was posting pornographic content. The letter…
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Hackers target Bnei Akiva
Peter Kohn writes about the recent hacking of Bnei Akiva’s Facebook page and about the platform’s response.
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Facebook & Wix act on Aboriginal Memes
Over the last few days the Online Hate Prevention Institute has been in contact with Facebook and Wix (a company offering do it yourself websites) over another lot of racist content directed against Indigenous Australians. As before the new content focused on “Aboriginal Memes”. Following contact by OHPI, both Facebook and Wix promptly took action…
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NIRS interviews OHPI
February 11, 2014: National Indigenous Radio Service discusses OHPI’s work A newsgrab of the interviews reports: The Online Hate Prevention Institute says governments must intervene in eliminating racist content being posted to social media sites. The comments, from Chief Executive Andre Oboler, come with the recent removal of an Aboriginal memes page from Facebook. That…
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The Merchant – an Antisemitic Facebook Page
Update 1 February 2014: “The Merchant” page is currently “unpublished”, this means it is not visible on Facebook and you can no longer report it. It has, however, not been permanently removed. This means the administrtaor can make it come back at any time. If the unpublishing was done by Facebook as a warning (with…
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News.com.au on Aboriginal Memes 2014
Source: Rod Chester, Facebook shuts vile Aboriginal memes page, despite earlier claiming it didn’t constitute ‘hate speech’, News.com.au, January 27 2014 FACEBOOK has shut down a racist Facebook page which vilified Indigenous Australians with revolting jokes and illustrations, despite earlier telling a complainant the page was acceptable under its ‘community standards’ policy. The Aboriginal Memes 2014 page…
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Briefing: Aboriginal Memes 2014
The “Aboriginal Memes 2014″ Facebook page was created on January 9th 2014 and was unpublished by Facebook on January 27th. Facebook had initially been rejecting reports users made about the page, but reversed their position after a journalist from News Corp contacted the company for an explanation. This incident against highlights that Facebook’s internal mechanisms…
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OHPI statement: Aboriginal Memes 2014
The “Aboriginal Memes 2014” Facebook page was created on January 9th and was ‘unpublished’ on January 27th following numerous people reporting it to Facebook. The page had only a small number of supporters. The Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) has a record of the page and its content. While some of the content was new,…
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Facebook apologises over homophobia
At the start of 2014 Facebook issued an apology for wrongly removing (repeatedly) an image of two men kissing. The removal came with a statement saying the image breached the platform’s community standards. Those who had posted the image claim over 100 accounts were suspended for posting the image. The reversal came after media reporting…