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Law expert to give public lecture on curbing online hate speech

Andre Oboler, a Melbourne law lecturer and global expert on the problems caused by online hate speech, is to present a public seminar at Griffith University in Queensland.

Oboler, a La Trobe University academic, is chief executive of the Online Hate Prevention Institute, an independent think tank that was set up in 2012 to address anti-Semitism in social media and internet forums.

In a Griffith statement announcing details of the seminar, Oboler said that governments and technology companies were beginning to take “online extremism” more seriously.

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