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Presentation in the UN (New York)
Presentation by Dr Andre Oboler at the UN in New York for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) conference “Tracking Hatred: An International Dialogue on Hate Speech in the Media”. The presentation was part of a panel on Monitoring, Regulating and Limiting Hate Speech. Panel description: “The anonymity, immediacy and global nature of the…
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OHPI in UNESCO Report on Freedom of Expression
The report “World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development: Special Digital Focus 2015” by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) (2 November 2015) discussed the work of the Online Hate Prevention Institute at some length. The following are extracted from the report: Page 28: Online hate speech renders some legal…
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12th biennial Seminar on antisemitism
On May 12th to 14th OHPI’s CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, attended and presented at the 12th biennial seminar on antisemitism run by the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry (Tel-Aviv University, Israel). The seminar was attended by experts from around the world and covered a wide range of topics. The presentation by OHPI…
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Anti-online hate speech campaigners launch new reporting tool
Report in the National Indigenous Radio Service on December 9, 2014. Report by Warren Barnsley. http://www.nirs.org.au/NEWS/Anti-online-hate-speech-campaigners-launch-new-reporting-tool A new tool to report and monitor hateful speech on social media will be made available for public use today. The ‘Fight against Hate’ initiative has been developed by the Online Hate Prevention Institute and will aim to determine…
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Tackling the online hate of right-wing extremism
Published in The Point Magazine in December 2014. Author: Matt Khoury. http://www.thepointmagazine.com.au/post.php?s=2014-12-04-tackling-the-online-hate-of-right-wing-extremism A new online hate reporting tool will be shared with government departments, police and non-government organisations to help locate and tackle the online racism fuelling right-wing extremism in Australia. The user-based reporting software, Fight Against Hate, has been developed by Dr Andre Oboler,…
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‘Anti-cyber cells will help monitor hate speeches online’
Published in Sakal Times (India) on December 13, 2014. Anti-cyber crime cells should be able to monitor online date real time for tracking down cases of hate speech in social media, said Andre Oboler, social media and online public diplomacy expert. Oboler, the CEO of Australia-based Online Hate Prevention Institute, was delivering the valedictory address…
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Preventing Online Hate
Published in J-Wire on December 10, 2014 by Sabina Baunin. http://www.jwire.com.au/preventing-online-hate/ OHPI is a harm prevention organisation headed by Dr Andre Oboler which focuses on hateful and discriminatory internet content across a wide array of websites including social media and websites which serve as advocacy platforms. In the past OHPI has monitored harmful online content consisting of Anti-Semitism,…
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New tool in fighting online hate
Published in the Australian Jewish News on December 15, 2014. Author: Phoebe Roth. http://www.jewishnews.net.au/new-tool-to-fight-online-hate/38909 New tool to fight online hate THE Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) last week launched a new online tool, Fight Against Hate, set to revolutionise the way online anti-Semitism, and discrimination on the web more broadly, is dealt with. The software was…
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OHPI: Tracking down the data to combat online hate
The Big Smoke, 11 December 2014, by Richard Jackson OHPI: Tracking down the data to combat online hate Richard Jackson attended the launch by The Online Hate Prevention Institution (OHPI) of a database it hopes will help combat online hate. On Tuesday night the B’nai B’rith Centre, a Jewish organisation based in Darlinghurst, celebrated the…
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Hitting back against hate
Mx Newspaper, 9 December 2014, Hitting back against hate Web users are being armed with a new weapon in the war against online hate. Melbourne-based charity The Online Hate Prevention Institute will launch a tool tonight at ohpi.org.au that can be used to report, log and track online hate. Fight Against Hate uses crowd-sourcing to…