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Je Suis Humain: Responsible free speech in the shadow of the Charlie Hebdo murders
The Report Some Extracts OHPI’s Recommendations Media Mentions The attacks in January 2015 in France on the satirical publication Charlie Hebdo, a police officer, and a kosher supermarket, have sparked significant discussion. That discussion touches on issues of antisemitism, freedom of speech and expression, a free press, freedom from persecution, human dignity, bigotry, religion, blasphemy,…
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Bike rage and the aggressive cyclist lobby
Over the last few days the OHPI Facebook page has received a number of comments relating to what is called “bike rage”. These comments come from an organised group of people who are trying to raise issues related to the rights of cyclists to use the roads. There has been significant commentary in the past…
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Facebook Experiments with Australia
On December 11th the Online Hate Prevention Institute claimed a major win, the closure of the Facebook hate page “Take Back Australia”. This briefing is not about the page, but about Facebook itself. It highlights how after banning the page, Facebook partially circumvented their own systems, putting public safety in Australia at risk, to impose…
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WIN: Hate page Take Back Australia CLOSED
Update December 2014 – WIN! OHPI has been campaigning for the hate page “Take Back Australia” to be closed since the 2nd of October 2014. We’re pleased to report that on December 11th 2014, the day after International Human Rights Day, Facebook finally closed this vile page. On October 10th, prior to coming down, the…
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How Facebook responded to anti-Muslim Hate
Last year on International Human Rights Day, December 10th 2013, the Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) released a major report into the growing problem of online hate targeting the Muslim community. The report, titled ‘Islamophobia on the Internet: The growth of online hate targeting Muslims’, was made freely available via the OHPI website. In the…
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Hate among friends
Most of the online hate OHPI reports on is public content. The reason for this is that public content is able to go viral and can usually do far more harm than content shared between people privately or only between friends. It is because of the greater risk from public content that OHPI usually focuses…
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Facebook: Increased reporting is not the answer to cyberbullying
Recently we came across two articles that look at the content moderation on social media. The first relates to the lives of social media content moderators, the people who actually filter out user-generated content that doesn’t meet the social media standards. Most of this work has been outsourced to Asian countries. The article puts to…
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Gaza “War” Photo taken down
October 15, 2014: Christian Kerr, Gaza “War” Photo taken down, The Australian (Page 2: Print Edition) quotes Dr Andre Oboler. A FACEBOOK posting linking to an article that portrayed a disabled Palestinian child as a victim of the recent strife in Gaza has been removed. The posting, by lobby group Australians for Palestine, appeared with…
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Holocaust Denial on Facebook 2014
Update December 31 2014 Two of the pages reported on in this briefing have now been closed. The third one remains. Please help by reporting “Holohoax – Exposing the Holocaust“, details are below. The briefing.. This briefing looks at three holocaust denial pages currently active on Facebook, and provides examples of some of the comments and…