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Advertising supports hosting of terrorist manifesto
A project jointly run by the NSW, Victorian and South Australian state governments has been advertised along side a terrorist manifesto advocating the killing of Jews, Muslims and Christians. The Online Hate Prevention Institute found the advertising late last night as we updated a presentation for a hearing in the Victorian Parliament today. At the…
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Drastic Action on Online Hate
This article was originally published as: Andre Oboler, “Social media in Germany combating hateful speech“, J-Wire, 28 December 2015 At one time Germany was the origin of racist hate speech which spread across the globe. Not just speech, but speech which turned into action and fed the flames. It’s no coincidence that today the Federal…
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Regulation of Online Hate Speech goes National
Facebook, Twitter, and Google have reached agreement with the German Government over the appropriate response to tackle hate speech. The response is deletion, and the time frame is 24 hours from when it is reported. This is not a good will gesture from the companies, but like other major improvements in tackling hate speech, it…
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Reporting Google + community “Jew Watch”
In this briefing, we examine the Google+ community Jew Watch (ID# 118209629236555838349). While most of its content is antisemitic, it also promotes white supremacist, homophobic and anti-Muslim content. In this briefing, we will examine the antisemitic character of this community illustrating it with several examples from the community page. We divide the antisemitic content into…
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PRESS RELEASE: Golden Dawn’s Australian Fascists
Greek far-right political party Golden Dawn now has a presence in Australia. Last week they linked up with an Australia far-right political party for a rally in support of Golden Dawn. Social media has played an important role in bringing the groups together. The Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI), an Australian charity, has examined the…
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Social Media, Golden Dawn and Australia’s Far-Right
An update to this briefing is available here. On 30 January, 2013, the Australian First Party Brisbane created a Facebook page. On November 7, 2013, a Facebook page called Australians for the Golden Dawn Party was created. Five months later, on May 2, 2014, Brisbane became the site of a Golden Dawn solidarity rally. The…
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Social media is the message
The following is an extract from a feature article in the form of an interview with OHPI’s CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, in the Australian Jewish News on November 30th 2012 (page 40). The social media is the message When it comes to Facebook and Twitter few people know just how powerful these forums can be…
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Algemeiner reports on Companies Action in response to OHPI and ADL
Source: Atara Arbesfeld, YouTube, Google and Apple Take Steps Towards Combating Online Anti-Semitism, The Algemeiner, 1 August 2012 Although hate and terror groups continue to thrive on the web, recent decisions made by Apple, Google, and YouTube were praised by anti-hate groups as positive steps towards preventing the spread of anti-Semitism on their platforms. A Hezbollah application that streamed videos…
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YouTube, Google and Apple Take Steps Towards Combating Online Anti-Semitism
The Algemeiner reports on recent decisions made by Apple, Google, and YouTube, which were praised by anti-hate groups as positive steps towards preventing the spread of anti-Semitism on their platforms. They discuss the Online Hate Prevention Institute’s recent report documenting one YouTube user who uploaded over one thousand videos in a single day “the majority of which were blatant hate…