On-line journalistic sites publish several news and stories every day. Readers of these sites
may comment a story, and, as a consequence, a single story might receive thousands of …

The past decade has been characterized by a strong increase in the use of social media and
a continuous growth of public online discussion. With the failure of purely manual …

Comment sections of online news providers have enabled millions to share and discuss
their opinions on news topics. Today, moderators ensure respectful and informative …

A reader of a news article would often be interested in the comments of other readers on an
article, because comments give insight into popular opinions or feelings toward a given …

This paper presents REM, a novel tool for the semi-automated real-time moderation of large
scale online forums. The growing demand for online participation and the increasing …

Microblogging websites such as Twitter and Chinese Sina Weibo contain large amounts of
microblogs posted by users. Many of these microblogs are highly sensitive to the important …

Blog posts containing many personal experiences or perspectives toward specific subjects
are useful. Blogs allow readers to interact with bloggers by placing comments on specific …

Social media are perhaps the most popular services of cyberspace today. The main
characteristic of social media is that they offer to every internet user the ability to add content …

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 …

Online discussion sites are plagued with various types of unwanted content, such as spam
and obscene or malicious messages. Prevention and detection-based techniques have …