violent extremism
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After the Christchurch massacre, the Coalition and Labor passed a bill prohibiting the sharing of abhorrent material on social media, but experts argue the new law will achieve little.
The Saturday Paper talks to our CEO Andre Oboler about the Coalition and Labour passing a bill prohibiting the sharing of abhorrent material on social media.
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Winning the war against online hate
Myf Warhurst from the ABC sits down with our CEO Andre Oboler to discuss how we might tackle online extremism after Christchurch.
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Winning the war against online hate
Griffith University talks to our CEO Andre Oboler about the regulation of hateful content online in the wake of the Christchurch attack.
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Netizen Report: As water levels rise, Iran’s ban on messaging apps is slowing emergency relief for flood victims
Global Voice cites our CEO Andre Oboler when discussing Australia’s new law requiring social media companies to remove and report abhorrent content.
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Laws targeting terror videos on Facebook and YouTube ‘rushed’ and ‘knee-jerk’, lawyers and tech industry say
ABC News talks to our CEO Andre Oboler about the new laws requiring social media companies to remove and report abhorrent material on their platform.
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Conspiracy Theories
We’ve been seeing an increase in the spread of fake news and conspiracy theories. Many of these conspiracy theories spread hate against particular groups in society. They then portray any effort to prevent this spread of hate not as an effort to protect groups and individuals whose human dignity is being attacked, but rather as…
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Anning in firing line from new FB ban
SBS News talks to our CEO Andre Oboler about Facebook’s new policies on racist content, and about the importance of local knowledge when regulating social media platforms.
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OHPI welcome’s Facebook action on White Supremacy
The Online Hate Prevention Institute welcomes the news that from next week Facebook will be taking greater efforts to ban white supremacy on the Facebook and Instagram platforms. Facebook and Twitter took similar action against the Alt-Right after Charlottesville. That move significantly dented the Alt-Right and we expect this latest move in the fight against…
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Christchurch shootings fuel politics of race in NZ, Australia
Our CEO Andre Oboler talks to China Daily Global about white supremacy in the wake of the Christchurch attack in New Zealand.
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Social media giants face regulation as publishers, not just postmen
Our CEO Andre Oboler talks to Financial Review about new regulations for social media companies in the wake of the Christchurch attack.