Holocaust Denial
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Push against antisemitism on Facebook
The Australian Jewish News spoke to our CEO Andre Oboler about the open letter, signed by over 120 organisations, which calls for Facebook to adopt the IHRA’s working definition of antisemitism in order to combat antisemitic content on the platform.
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Facebook needs the IHRA definition
Our CEO Andre Oboler writes in The Australian Jewish News about an open letter, signed by 125 organisations, which calls for Facebook to adopt the IHRA’s working definition of antisemitism when moderating hate-speech on the platform.
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The Coronavirus Conspiracy Theorist and Holocaust Denial
The Online Hate Prevention Institute recently started a fundraiser to tackling antisemitism – our focus area for the month of June. Just as we experienced with our March campaign on Islamophobia, announcing the campaign drew the haters out of the woodwork. One of them promoted Holocaust denial through their comment, but a look at their…
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Holocaust Distortion
We’ve just published on Holocaust denial on Instagram and while Instagram is well behind other platforms in responding to this problem, it isn’t the only place where Holocaust denial and distortion, not to mention glorification of Nazism, is currently occurring online. In this briefing we look at an example of Holocaust distortion on Facebook. As…
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Holocaust Denial on Instagram
Instagram’s Community Guidelines prohibit both incitement to violence and hate speech. The focus, however, is primarily on bullying which attacks an individual: Respect other members of the Instagram community. We want to foster a positive, diverse community. We remove content that contains credible threats or hate speech, content that targets private individuals to degrade or…
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Campaign against Holocaust denial, distortion and glorification
Launched on January 27, 2020, the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration and extermination camps at Auschwitz, our campaign against Holocaust denial, distortion and glorification will run until the end of February 2020. As part of this campaign we will be producing a number of briefings looking at examples of online Holocaust denial,…
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A thread of anti-religious hate
Following our reports Facebook have removed content promoting Holocaust distortion and antisemitism. The same source also promotes anti-Christian hate.
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Facebook is stuck in denial
Our CEO Andre Oboler writes for the Australian Jewish News about the need for Facebook to revise its outdated policy on holocaust denial.
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Facebook is stuck in denial
IT was back on October 16, 2008, when I gave advice a to Jewish activist about to be interviewed by a German newspaper on the topic of anti-Semitism in social media. “In Germany you have the added advantage that Holocaust denial is a criminal offence … what the Holocaust deniers do is illegal and threatens…
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Live radio interview on Facebook and Holocaust denial
Radio Sputnik Interviews our CEO Andre Oboler live on the 22nd of July 2018 about Facebook and Holocaust denial.