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Content moderation systems are crucial in Online Social Networks (OSNs). Indeed, their role is to keep platforms and their users safe from malicious activities. However, there is an emerging consensus that such systems are unfair to fragile users and ...

Many countries, including US and Brazil, have laws to guarantee children’s rights against exposure, directly and indirectly, to advertisements that could harm their education. However, given the facilities of creating an online ad on social media and ...

Offering a viable alternative architecture to centrally-controlled global digital platforms for social networking is an open challenge. Here we present a grassroots architecture for serverless, permissionless, peer-to-peer social networks termed ...

This paper presents a novel dataset of 200k YouTube comments from 468 videos across 109 channels in four content categories: Entertainment, Gaming, People & Blogs, and Science & Technology. We applied state-of-the-art NLP methods to augment the dataset ...

Web3 social media strives to eliminate the need for centralized management by building upon on technologies such public ledgers and smart contracts. This has generated significant hype, but creates many notable challenges, many of which remain ...

Fake news is a major challenge in social media, particularly in the health domain where it can lead to severe consequences for both individuals and society as a whole. To contribute to combating this problem, we present a novel solution for improving ...