• The increase in Islamophobia on the Internet

    January 10, 2014: Raport: โ€žWzrost islamofobii w Internecieโ€, Islamofobia pod lupa (The increase in Islamophobia on the Internet, Islamophpbia under scrutiny (translation from Polish)),ย http://islamofobia.info.pl/2014/01/10/raport-wzrost-islamofobii-w-internecie/#more-529 December 10, 2013, on the occasion of the International Day for Human Rights released a report Institute. Combating Hate on the Internet (ang. Online Hate Prevention Institute) in collaboration with the…

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  • Hate page administrator close accounts after threats of violence
    Hate page administrator close accounts after threats of violence

    This briefing relates to a recent incident on an anti-Muslim hate page. The administrator(s) of the page took a stand to differentiate opposition to Islam from the spread of violence and hate against Muslims. This is an important distinction between attacks on ideas, which are protected under the principles of freedom of expression, and attacks…

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  • Facebook criticized for not stopping racism

    December 10, 2013: Daniel Vergara,ย Facebook kritiseras fรถr att inte stoppa rasism, Expo.se (Swedish media) (Translation:ย Facebook criticized for not stopping racism ),ย http://expo.se/2013/facebook-kritiseras-for-att-inte-stoppa-rasism_6298.html Racism directed against minority groups abound on Facebook. A report from the Online Hate Prevention Institute of Australia has mapped Islamophobia on Facebook. The report notes that the company is not acting against the…

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  • Islamophobia on the Internet: The growth of online hate targeting Muslims
    Islamophobia on the Internet: The growth of online hate targeting Muslims

    On International Human Rights Day, December 10th 2013, the Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) have released a major new report into the growing problem of online hate targeting the Muslim community. The full report, titled ‘Islamophobia on the Internet: The growth of online hate targeting Muslims’, is available below as a free download. The report…

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  • Using Facebook to Fight Hate
    Using Facebook to Fight Hate

    The Online Hate Prevention Institute was alerted last week to sanctions imposed by Facebook against โ€œThey Canโ€™tโ€, an anti-hate Facebook page. ย We believe โ€œThey Canโ€™tโ€ 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 YouTubeโ€™s attention. OHPI…

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  • Centrelink Memes and Anti-Aboriginal Racism
    Centrelink Memes and Anti-Aboriginal Racism

    BACKGROUND: “Aboriginal Memes”, that is racist captioned images attacking Indigenous Australians, first gained media attention around October 2012. OHPI produced the first major report on the topic, “Aboriginal Memes and OnlineHate“, which is available as a free download. Aboriginal Memes are less widespread these days but the do keep reappearing. The latest collection we have…

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  • Message to Oct 14 Protesters
    Message to Oct 14 Protesters

    To those attending todayโ€™s Protest Against Hate Speech on Facebook: The Online Hate Prevention Institutes congratulates you on your determination and efforts in drawing attention to the problem of antisemitism, Holocaust denial, and other forms of hate speech on Facebook. More specifically, we congratulate you in drawing attention to the inadequacy of Facebookโ€™s response to…

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  • Protesting at Facebook

    October 5, 2013: Andre Oboler, Protesting at Facebook, Jerusalem Post

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  • Video Briefing: Misogyny – Hate Against Women
    Video Briefing: Misogyny – Hate Against Women

    This is the second part of a series of briefings related to OHPI’s campaign video “Stop Racism and Online Hate with OHPI”. This briefing focuses on the three images in the video which relate to women. The full video can be seen below, and the images have each been recaptured from the video to show…

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  • Press Release: video briefing on Antisemitism and Holocaust denial
    Press Release: video briefing on Antisemitism and Holocaust denial

    PRESS RELEASE Today the Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) released a new briefing which examinesย ย in more depthย 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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