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- My new article at JPost on the upcoming Global Forum to Combat Antisemitism: http://t.co/hcV2YOfksz 4 weeks ago
- New report: troll spreading hate against ANZACs before #ANZACDay then impersonating me to direct outrage my way http://t.co/hN2yXLwT8m 4 weeks ago
- OHPI calls for anti-Muslim page to be removed from Facebook http://t.co/y6fKw1HYe2 #Islamophobia #Islam #Facebook #SocialMedia 1 month ago
- Lots of comments on my JPost article re: #OpIsrael shame some of them appear not to have read the article http://t.co/SV63kMbd6u 1 month ago
- Article in #Hebrew on my work re: online antisemitism at Mako (Channel 2, Israel) http://t.co/7WOv9j3Uvo #Israel #antisemitism 1 month ago
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Aboriginal Memes
Blow is a press release from the Online Hate Prevention Institute and a link to the report Dr Oboler wrote on Aboriginal Memes and Online Hate. The report fully documents the Aboriginal Memes incident, listing each new page that was … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigns, Publications, Reports
Tagged Aboriginal Memes, Andre Oboler, Anne Frank, Jewish Memes, OHPI
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The danger of big data: Social media as computational social science
Originally published as: Andre Oboler, Kristopher Welsh, Lito Cruz, The danger of big data: Social media as computational social science, First Monday, Volume 17, Number 7 – 2 July 2012 Social networking Web sites are amassing vast quantities of data and computational … Continue reading
Posted in Peer reviewed, Publications
Tagged Andre Oboler, big data, computational social science, ethics, Facebook, First Monday, google, Kristopher Welsh, Lito Cruz, Privacy, social media
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President Peres in the Lion’s Den
Originally published: Andre Oboler and David Matas, President Peres in the Lion’s Den, Jerusalem Post, 6 March 2012 page 14. Also reprinted in The Cutting Edge News. On Tuesday March 6th, President Shimon Peres will visit Facebook, a company which … Continue reading
Posted in In the media, My Op-Eds
Tagged Andre Oboler, David Matas, Facebook, Holocaust Denial, Jerusalem Post, Shimon Peres
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The Australian Jewish News gets Andre Oboler’s views on an Australian summit on cyber-racism
Peter Kohn, Taking a Stand Against Web Hate, The Australian Jewish News, 30 April 2010, p 3 Quelling racism and anti-Semitism in the trash-and-treasure environment of the world wide web is looming as a great social challenge. That was clear … Continue reading
Posted in In the media, News Commentary
Tagged AJN, Andre Oboler, Australian Jewish News, internet filter, online hate, Peter Kohn
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Rai News 24 has this Italian report on online antisemitism and Dr Andre Oboler’s visit to Italy
Boom dell’antisemitismo on line, Rai News 24, 24 April 2010 GUARDA IL VIDEO: intervista all’On. Fiamma Nierenstein e Stefano Gatti L’antisemitismo non e’ un problema ebraico, e’ un problema che riguarda la societa’. Questo il messaggio chiave dell’esperto Andre’ Oboler, coordinatore … Continue reading
Posted in In the media, News Commentary
Tagged Andre Oboler, antisemitismo, Fiamma Nirenstein, Italian, Italy, RAI News 24, Stefano Gatti
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Il Velino reports in Italian on efforts by Dr Oboler, Fiamma Nirenstein and Stefano Gatti to combat hate
POL – Antisemitismo, Nirenstein: Capire diffusione fenomeno su internet, Il Velino, April 21, 2010 (In Italian) Il fenomeno dell’antisemitismo online, specie con la costante diffusione dei social network, costituisce uno degli aspetti piu’ rilevanti dell’antisemitismo odierno. La polizia postale e … Continue reading
Posted in In the media, News Commentary
Tagged Andre Oboler, antisemitism, Fiamma Nirenstein, Il Velino, Italian, Italy, online antisemitism, Stefano Gatti
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Pesach and Twitter, the Jewish Week gets Andre Oboler’s views on tradition and technology
Sharon Udasin, Let My People … Tweet , The Jewish Week, March 24th 2010 Welcome to the Tweder. Can Twitter and the Passover seder coexist? Last Passover, Dan Berkal spent the first seder dining with family and friends at the … Continue reading
Posted in In the media, News Commentary
Tagged Andre Oboler, Jewish Week, Sharon Udasin, technology, twitter
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Bigotry Monitor’s Quote of the Week comes from Dr Andre Oboler
Charles Fenynesi, Quote of the Week: The need to limit hatred’s spread, Bigotry Monitor, 10(5), Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union, Feb 5 2010 Surveying efforts by “iFascists” to exonerate Fascism on the Internet, Australian media … Continue reading
Posted in In the media, News Commentary
Tagged Andre Oboler, Bigotry Monitor, Charles Fenynesi, iFascists
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Andre Oboler and David Matas, Report from the Working Group on Online Antisemitism, The Global Forum to Combat Antisemitism
Report of the Online Antisemitism Working Group Andre Oboler and David Matas (Co-Chairs), Working Group 3 – Antisemitism Online: Cyberspace and the Media, the Global Forum to Combat Antisemitism, 16-17 December 2009, Jerusalem, Israel.[i] Introduction This report represents the work … Continue reading
Posted in Publications, Reports
Tagged Andre Oboler, antisemitism, David Matas, Global Forum, Israel, Jerusalem, MFA, online antisemitism, Report, Working Group
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Honest Reporting’s Alex Margolin comments on Dr Oboler’s call for greater accountability from social media platforms
HonestReporting’s social media editor, Alex Margolin, contributes occasional posts on social media issues. He oversees HonestReporting on Facebook. Andre Oboler, the leading authority on anti-Semitism on the Internet, recently called for greater accountability from social media platforms that allow anti-Semitic … Continue reading →