Islamophobia
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A decade of action on online hate – 2013
Social Media is so much a part of our lives, it sometimes feels like they have always been there. We often forget just how new they are, and that we as a society are still coming to grips with them and with the ways they impact our lives, both for good and for harm. The…
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Report of the Inquiry into anti-vilification protections
The Online Hate Prevention Institute warmly welcomes the report of the Inquiry into anti-vilification protections which was tabled today in the Victorian Parliament. The Inquiry undertook extensive consultation. Committee members were deeply engaged and worked in a spirit of cooperation to ensure the best possible outcome could be reached for the Victorian community. The report…
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Address to the United Nations
On Friday 20 November our CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, served as the panelist for Civil Society in the UN’s 13th Session of the Forum on Minority Issues. The session this year focused on “Hate Speech, Social Media and Minorities”. A clip with Dr Oboler’s presentation is presented below. The full 2 hours can be seen…
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Supplemental Submission to Victorian Parliament
By invitation, the Online Hate Prevention Institute tabled a Supplemental Submission to the Inquiry into Anti-Vilification Protections: Parliament of Victoria on June 17th. The additional submission was requested in light of the impact of COVID-19. In the submission we were able to draw on a comprehensive body of material, a product of our examination of…
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Islamophobic Pages and COVID-19
This briefing looks at 2 Facebook pages that promote Islamophobia as their core objective. It also examines content they have been posting in relation to COVID-19. Anti United Nations The page Anti United Nations (ID:121668961227024) is liked by 3425 people and has 3579 followers. It was created on 11 May 2010. The page lists its…
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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 liked it. According to a post they made on November 17 2018, this is their second page (hence the number 2 in their name) as their first…
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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 spitting in a policeman’s face, later coughing on him, and claiming she was due for Coronavirus testing. Counter Jihad and anti-Muslim groups used the video as an…
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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 news and from their language they may be an Australian citizen. The profile was created in October 2019. It is prolific having made 9550 Tweets but has…
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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 with the Islamic Council of Victoria, was highlighted in 2014 to a range of Foreign Ministers by the OIC, and in 2018 the UK’s All Party Parliamentary Committee…
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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 in October 2010. By late 2014 the number of active monthly users on Instagram surpassed the number of active monthly users on Twitter. Instagram has largely been…