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Anti-Asian Hate on Social Media
This is the first briefing in a new project documenting anti-Asian hate on Facebook and Instagram. This project is being conducted in partnership with Meta’s Australia office and the Race Discrimination Team at the Australian Human Rights Commission. In this briefing we explain the project and the data collected so far. In later briefings we will…
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Building SMARTER Communities of Resistance and Solidarity
We’re changing the game on cyber-racism. A journal article published today in “Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal” by our CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, and Karen Connelly introduces the new version of OHPI’s reporting tool and the broader picture of how it can integrate and empower both individuals and organisations across the community. The journal…
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Annual Report 2016 – Antisemitism Report
This article is an extract based on OHPI’s Annual Report for the 2016 Financial Year. Return to the Report. On Holocaust Memorial Day, 27 January 2016, we publicly released the world’s first large scale empirical report on hate speech in social media titled “Measuring the Hate: The State of Antisemitism in Social Media”. It was…
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Annual Report 2016 – Software Tools
This article is an extract based on OHPI’s Annual Report for the 2016 Financial Year. Return to the Report. FightAgainstHate.com Reporting Tool OHPI’s FightAgainstHate.com online reporting tool was launched by the Hon Paul Fletcher MP on behalf of the Minister for Communications, Hon Malcolm Turnbull MP, in Sydney in December 2014. The software aims to…
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European Union agreement with Social Media Platforms on tackling Hate Speech
The Online Hate Prevention Institute welcomes the news that the European Union has just reach agreement on a code of conduct to tackle hate speech with the largest social media platforms providers: Facebook, Microsoft, YouTube and Twitter. Under the agreement the platforms will “quickly and efficiently” tackle illegal hate speech relating to race, color, religion,…
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Reporting to FightAgainstHate.com
About FightAgainstHate.com FightAgainstHate.com is a leading tool in combating online hate. It allows reports on social media content attacking individuals and communities to be collected and shared with stakeholders with an interest in public safety, and the harmony, resilience and cohesion of the community. FightAgainstHate.com has also provided the data for key reports into topics…
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How our reporting tools makes a difference
When people hear we have a tool for reporting online hate, some people get concerned. Those who are peddlers of hate have good cause to be concerned. Those using social media to invite violence or plan extremist attacks on the public should certainly be worried. For everyone else, our FightAgainstHate.com tool should be celebrated. First…
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Trusting social media companies on national security
Last Friday, the US government invited some of the largest tech companies in Silicon Valley to a closed-door meeting to discuss how to disrupt the online activities of terrorists, particularly by Daesh (Islamic State) terrorists. The companies that participated in the meeting included Facebook, Twitter, Apple, Microsoft, LinkedIn, YouTube, Yahoo, PayPal and more. A pre-meeting…
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Recap 2015: FightAgainstHate.com reporting tool
In our Recap 2015 series, we take look at some of our major achievements of the year. OHPI’s FightAgainstHate.com online reporting tool was launched by the Hon Paul Fletcher MP on behalf of the then Minister for Communications, Hon Malcolm Turnbull MP, in Sydney on December 9, 2014. The software aims to make social media…
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Anti-Muslim Hate Interim Report
This interim report provides some background and preliminary data from OHPI’s forthcoming “Spotlight on Anti-Muslim Internet Hate Report” due to be released in March 2016. It is released for International Human Rights Day (10th of December 2015) and in light of the need to urgently address this growing problem which threatens the inclusivity of our…