Holocaust Denial
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Responses to Holocaust Memorial Day 2021
Each year on January 27th we publish an article for International Holocaust Memorial Day. Then we receive the comments. We document them, moderate them, and ban posters where we feel it is appropriate. Then we share an article about what we removed and why. We end up doing this every year, it is incredibly painful…
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Tackling Holocaust denial and distortion will be a challenge for Facebook
By Dr Andre Oboler Having banned Holocaust denial and distortion last week, Facebook now faces the challenge of applying that policy and cleaning up over sixteen years of hate. The challenge comes as Facebook faces record levels of user engagement and record levels of online hate. I raised the alarm that antisemitism in social media…
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Tackling denial will be a challenge for Facebook
Our CEO Andre Oboler discusses Facebook’s recent ban on holocaust denial in Australian Jewish News, and outlines some of the challenges that the platform will face when trying to implement this new policy.
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Australian academic claims Facebook victory on Holocaust after a decade-long battle
jmedia.online reports on our CEO’s Andre Oboler’s campaign for Facebook to ban holocaust denial. The article reports on Oboler’s cautious optimism in response to Facebook changing their policies.
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Facebook bans Holocaust denial
In a major announcement overnight Facebook has reversed a long standing policy and announced that Holocaust denial will now be banned on their platforms. The Online Hate Prevention Institute has been tackling Holocaust denial on Facebook and other platforms, and pushing the company to alter this policy, since we were founded in 2012. We strongly…
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Long lived, now Facebook bans content that denies Nazi Germany’s tragedy of the Jewish Massacre
cyberthreat.id talks to our CEO Andre Oboler about Facebook’s policies on holocaust denial, and on the possibility that Facebook may be on the wrong side of history.
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Facebook bans posts denying and distorting the Holocaust
jwire.com talks to our CEO Andre Oboler about Facebook’s recent ban of holocaust denial on the platform. Oboler talks about his past campaign for this change, and about the changing position and responsibilities of Facebook in our society.
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Australian academic claims Facebook victory on Holocaust after a decade-long battle
The New Daily speaks to our CEO Andre Oboler about Facebook’s recent banning of holocaust denial on the platform. Oboler speaks about the past efforts to get Facebook to change their policy, and explains that he is waiting to see how the policy is implemented before celebrating.
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Holocaust revision and denial
This page has been prepared to support the delivery of an online lecture we are providing for the Jewish Holocaust Centre in Melbourne. For a long time Holocaust denial was limited to discredited academics and fringe groups. However, the Internet allowed Holocaust denial, glorification of Nazism and antisemitism to reach mainstream audiences in increasing numbers.…
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128 Organizations Call on Facebook to Adopt Anti-Semitism Definition
The Media Line talks to our CEO Andre Oboler about an open letter, signed by over 125 organisations, which calls for Facebook to adopt the IHRA’s working definition of antisemitism when moderating hate-speech on the platform.