Islamophobia
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Anti-Muslim Groups Turn Their Focus to Chinese and Asian Australians
The page, Australians against Sharia 2 (ID: 1849829035265159), was created on March 15 2017. It currently has 422 people who follow the page and 409 people who have […]
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Coronavirus Incident Sparks Islamophobia
A single incident sparked a large number of Xenophobic and Islamophobic responses following a viral video captured in early April. The video showed a 25-year old Australian-Muslim woman […]
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Using Twitter for Hate
This briefing looks at examples of fake news, Islamophobia, racism, xenophobia and hate from a single Twitter user based in New Zealand. This user regularly comments on Australian […]
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Campaign on Islamophobia
Throughout April 2020, the Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) will be running a campaign tackling online Islamophobia. Our 2013 work on Islamophobia on the Internet, produced in consultation […]
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Instagram needs help
UPDATE: Within a few days of publication of this briefing all three accounts listed below had been closed by Instagram Instagram has been growing rapidly since its launched […]
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Tackling Hate Speech Training with CCJ (Vic)
On Sunday 10th of November participants gathered for a program on Tackling Hate Speech organised by the Council of Christians and Jews Victoria (CCJ) and the Online Hate […]
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Hating those opposing hate
As the year draws to a close one of our key reflections is that in 2018 it became harder than ever for people to oppose online hate. While […]
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Impact on Islamophobia: OHPI in UK Parliamentary Report
A few weeks ago the All Party Parliamentary Committee on British Muslims released a detailed and extremely important report “Islamophobia Defined“. The report is the result of “widespread […]
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Anti-Muslim hate speech ‘fuels extremism’, experts say
The Sydney Morning Herald talks to our CEO Andre Oboler about the role that hate-speech can play in fuelling violent extremism, following the Baird Government’s refusal to legislate […]
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Europe acknowledges online hate speech as a serious threat
The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) has just released its annual report. The Annual Report always starts by discussing the main trends in the fields of […]