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Fight Against Hate Launched
On the evening of December 9th, as International Human Rights Day grew close, The Hon Paul Fletcher MP pressed the big red button to launch “Fight Against Hate” a new reporting tool created by Australia’s Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI). Mr Fletcher, who has headed the Australian Government’s push on online safety, praised the new…
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Press Release: Launch of Online Tool to Combat Hate
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) will be launching a new online tool “Fight Against Hate” at a launch event in Sydney on December 9th, the evening before International Human Rights Day. The tool, which is a game changer in the fight against online hate, will be launched by the Hon Paul…
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Dealing with Online Hate
In J-Wire, Australian Jewish News Agency, September 24, 2014, http://www.jwire.com.au/news/dealing-online-hate/45949 The Online Hate Prevention Institute has hosted an event to highlight the rising antisemitism on social media and to launch tools to help combat it. At the core of the event was the beta-launch of an online tool developed by OHPI to report and monitor…
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Presenting Fight Aagainst Hate to FECCA
On September 6, 2014, Dr Oboler presented Fight Against Hate to the Youth Committee of the Federation of Ethnic Community Councils of Australia . He discussed how it works, and how the Youth Committee could help roll it out across Australia.
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It’s Happening! Join the fight against growing online antisemitism.
At 4pm on August 31st, OHPI will be running a major event, empowering the Jewish community and releasing a new tool that will make social media companies publicly accountable for antisemitism on their platforms. To be a part of this, you need to be there. Those who attend will receive a free guide not only…
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Talk on Cyber-Racism & Social Media
Dr Andre Oboler gave a public lecture on Social Media & Cyber-Racism on August 21st. The talk was organised by IEEE and focused on the roles and responsibilities of software engineers in combating hate speech on social media.
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International Engagement on Online Hate Monitoring Software
In late June and early July OHPI’s CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, met with colleagues in Melbourne (Australia), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) and Jerusalem (Israel). In each city the Online Hate Prevention Institute’s Fight Against Hate software was presented and discussed. The software using a combination of crowd sourcing, expert solicitation and artificial intelligence to monitor both…
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Spread the word, a new solution is in the pipeline!
Take Action Spread the word, a new solution is in the pipeline! Last week an Israeli student, Ido Daniel, held Facebook to account by challenging a Facebook representative at a conference over Facebook’s rejection of his complaint of outrageous antisemitic content. We can’t all have our rejected reports held up in front of Facebook and…
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Yom Kippur’s apathetic giving
Originally published as: Andre Oboler, “Yom Kippur’s apathetic giving“, Jerusalem Post Blogs, 12 September 2013 Writing this article is probably a bad idea. Challenging the status quo usually is, and least for the person doing the challenging. Something, however, needs to be said. On Yom Kippur Jews around the world will pledge millions in Tzdakah…