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Impersonating Anonymous: Is it state sponsored terrorism?
Originally published as: Andre Oboler, ‘Impersonating Anonymous: Is it state sponsored terrorism?’, Jerusalem Post, 12 February 2012. Republished by Honest Reporting and The Cutting Edge News. Since its earliest days the “Internet gathering” known as Anonymous has declared “we are legion”. After attacks on PayPal, Amazon, Sony, various banks and US Government websites, as in Roman times, the power of the legion is […]
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Honest Reporting uses Dr Oboler’s analysis to explain Yahoo’s virtual division of Jerusalem
Honest Reporting, Yahoo Divides Jerusalem, COMMUNIQUE: 10 June 2010 Yahoo uses iPhone weather application to make a political statement. A few weeks ago, many iPhone users, including HonestReporting’s Managing Editor, noticed that something had changed on their pre-installed weather application. The data for Jerusalem, as supplied by Yahoo, simply stopped updating. But this was no bug […]
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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 material to appear on their sites. Oboler points out that standards of acceptable speech differ […]
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Antisemitism 2.0, WUJS 3G – Unlocking our Future, Congress of the World Union of Jewish Students
I assisted the World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) with their 2009 congress, “WUJS 3G”. The Congress, based in Jerusalem, was themes on emerging technology. I moderated the track online antisemitism which included a presentation from myself as well as presentations from Amos Hermon (head of the Jewish Agency’s task force to combat antisemitism), Aryeh […]
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The Jewish Week reports on the Wiki Wars raging on Wikipedia, with analysis from Dr Oboler
Tamar Snyder, Latest Front In Mideast Wars: Wikipedia, The Jewish Week, May 14 2008 Call it the Wiki Wars. Fed up with what he considered the skewed perception of Israel depicted by Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia, Gilead Ini, a senior research analyst at CAMERA, the Boston-based pro-Israel media watchdog, decided to mobilize. On March […]
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Andre Oboler & Honest Reporting Staff, Exposed – Anti-Israeli Subversion on Wikipedia, Honest Reporting
HonestReporting exposes anti-Israel activists manipulating the online encyclopedia. Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia anyone can edit, may strive for pure democracy, but that doesn’t mean it’s always fair. Our colleagues at CAMERA learned this the hard way last month when their effort to fight anti-Israel bias on Wikipedia ended in several members being banned from the […]