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The Jewish Tribune in Canada reports on Andre Oboler’s work at the Global Forum to Combat Antisemitism
Avraham Zuroff, Antisemitism: Internet is newest medium, global forum told, The Jewish Tribune (Canada), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 Jerusalem – Antisemitism on the Internet is one of the newest forms of hatred towards Jews, according to an attorney and an expert on computer security who conducted a working group on combating online antisemitism at the […]
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The Australian Jewish News reports on the launch of Dr Oboler’s CIE project
Dalia Sable, ZFA’s innovative internet initiative, The Australian Jewish News, 18 December 2009, p 11 To help the community become more involved with the online world, the Zionist Federation of Australia (ZFA) has this month launched the unique Community Internet Engagement (CIE) Project. Headed by online expert, Dr Andre Oboler, regarded for his research into […]
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O’Reilly news discuss Dr Oboler’s Facebook and Holocaust Denial Report
Caitlyn Martin, Report: Facebook A Haven For Hate Groups, O’Reilly, September 17, 2009 Just over a year ago I reported on the work of Dr. Andre Oboler for O’Reilly News, who had written a report on how Google Earth was delivering overtly politically biased information. A combination of negative publicity and a libel suit filed […]
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The Jewish Week asks Andre Oboler to comment on streaming sermon
Steve Lipman, ‘If You Stream It, They Will Come’, The Jewish Week, 15 September 2009 Lisa Gilbert, a native of Cincinnati who now lives in Manhattan, listened to the rabbi’s sermon and the choir’s singing at her family’s Cincinnati congregation on the High Holy Days last year. From her New York apartment. Online. Gilbert, a […]
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The Jerusalem Post reports on Dr Oboler’s new report on Facebook and Holocaust denial
Elan Miller, ‘Facebook doesn’t bar hateful content against Jews’, Jerusalem Post, 27 August 2009 The Facebook social networking Web site is violating its own terms and conditions on incitement to hatred, The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs charged in a report released on Thursday. “Facebook has through ignorance created an anti-Semitic policy platform where the […]
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A web exclusive, Dr Oboler speaks with the Jewish Week about Tweeting For Shalit
Sharon Udasin, WEB EXCLUSIVE: Tweeting For Shalit, The Jewish Week, 25 August 2009 In the next 24 hours, pro-Israel Tweeters are expected to come out in thousands for the Tweet4Shalit campaign, showing their support for kidnapped Israeli Defense Force Cpl. Gilad Shalit, in honor of his upcoming 23rd birthday. Shalit, who was captured by Hamas […]
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Andre Oboler comments to the Australian Jewish News on Facebook and Holocaust denial
Chantal Abitbol, Facebook refuses to ban all Holocaust-denial groups, The Australian Jewish News, 15 May 2009, pg 8 Social Networking site Facebook is facing mounting criticism in Australia and overseas after refusing to ban Holocaust-denial groups from its site. Despite international pressure calling for the popular website to block Holocaust-denial groups, Facebook said it does […]
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The Jewish Week gets Dr Oboler’s views on a planned blogging tour of Israel
Sharon Udasin, Photo Editing Israel’s Online Image, The Jewish Week, March 4th 2009 On open-source sites like Google Maps and Flickr, the picture isn’t always pretty. Media Consul David Saranga hopes a blogger tour will help. A simple search for “Israel” on Google Maps will give you more than just roadways and town names: photographed […]
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Andre Oboler named as one of Israel’s best ‘cyber warriors’ in the Jewish Chronicle
Lucy Tobin, Israel’s cyber warriors, The Jewish Chronicle, Feb 12, 2009 When Joel Leyden speaks about Israel, 89,000 people listen. His name may not be familiar, but if you have ever used Google to look up anything on the Middle East, then you have probably had your search results influenced by him. And if you […]
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The Australian Jewish News interview Dr Oboler on internet Antisemitism
Sharon Berger, Expert Warns on Internet antisemitism, The Australian Jewish News, October 31 2008, pg 4 SOCIAL media expert Dr Andre Oboler has issued a dire warning about the transmission of anti-Semitic online cultural values. Behaviour that is not acceptable in a public place should not be accept- able in online communities, such as Google, […]