International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats (CySoc 2027)

The International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats (CySoc 2027) addresses the challenges of detecting and countering harmful online content, users, and communities, while considering ethical implications in the digital space.

Key Topics

• Political conflicts in online platforms in the era of gen-ai
• Harassment and cyberbullying
• Gender-based violence
• Illicit drug trafficking
• Relationship of the social web and mainstream news media
• Emotional and psychological support
• Influencer identification and community detection for movements
• Online extremism
• Misinformation and disinformation (e.g., epidemics of fake news, images and videos, during a disaster, health issues and elections)
• Trust relationship and community dynamics
• Ethical considerations on privacy-preserving social media analytics
• Cultural implications of social web usage
• Hate speech
• Political conflicts in online platforms in the era of gen-ai
• Human trafficking
• Mental health implications of social media

Who should attend

• Researchers in cybersecurity and digital threats
• Academics studying online extremism, hate speech, and violence
• Professionals working on privacy-preserving social media analytics
• Policy makers concerned with the ethics of online content regulation
• Experts in mental health and the impact of social media
• Developers and engineers working on content detection and prediction tools