[Air-L] CySoc Workshop on Cyber Social Threats @ICWSM 2020

[Ugur Kursuncu]

Dear Colleagues,

Please join us at the *Cyber Social Threats* workshop (CySoc 2020) on
Monday, *June 8, 8:30 AM ET* @ICWSM2020

We have* two Keynotes* by Alexandra Olteanu <https://www.aolteanu.com/>
from Microsoft Research
<https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/theme/fate/> and Mikey Cohen
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikey-cohen-4612a0/> from Network Contagion
Institute <https://ncri.io/>.

We have *eight interesting papers* accepted for presentation and ICWSM 2020
workshop proceedings. We will have two paper sessions and the first session
will be dedicated to *Covid 19* papers. Lastly, we will have a
*synthesis/brainstorming* session, that would result in paper concepts for
impactful future research, for 20-minute discussion.

This workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners in computer
and social sciences from both academia and industry to exchange ideas on
understanding the multi-faceted social, psychological, cultural, emotional,
communicative, and linguistic aspects of harmful content while leading the
discussion on building novel computational methods to reliably detect,
derive meaning, interpret, understand and counter them.

*For more information: http://CySoc.aiisc.ai <http://CySoc.aiisc.ai>*


*Co-organizers:Ugur Kursuncu, AI Institute, University of South Carolina,
SC, USA. Yelena Mejova, ISI Foundation, Turin, Italy. Jeremy Blackburn,
State University of New York at Binghamton, NY, USA Amit Sheth, AI
Institute, University of South Carolina, SC, USA.*

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*CySoc 2020 Program*

8.30 – 8.45 AM – Welcome to the workshop attendees.

8.45 – 9.45 AM – Keynote/Invited Talk: Alexandra Olteanu, Microsoft
Research. "Challenges to Measuring Objectionable Behavior Online by Humans
and Machines"

9.45 – 10.30 AM – COVID-19 Paper Session. Four papers will be presented
with 12 minutes allocated for each, including Q/A.

   -

   Kai-Cheng Yang, Christopher Torres-Lugo and Filippo Menczer: “Prevalence
   of Low-Credibility Information on Twitter During the COVID-19 Outbreak”
   (paper 8)
   -

   Lynnette Ng and Jia Yuan Loke: ”Is this pofma? Analysing public opinion
   and misinformation in a COVID-19 Telegram group chat” (paper 2)
   -

   Gautam Kishore Shahi and Durgesh Nandini: “FakeCovid- A Multilingual
   Cross-domain Fact Check News Dataset for COVID-19” (paper 5)
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   Alexei Abrahams and Noura Aljizawi: “Middle Eastern Twitter bots and the
   covid-19 ‘infodemic’” (paper 9)

10.30 – 10.45 AM – Coffee break.

10.45 – 11.45 AM – Keynote/Invited Talk: Mikey Cohen, Director of
Engineering at the Network Contagion Research Institute, former head of
Edge Network Engineering at Netflix. “Promoted to Zero: Why I choose
Fighting Hate Online over Netflix?”

11.45 AM – 12.30 PM – Paper Presentations. Four papers will be presented
with 12 minutes allocated for each, including Q/A.

   -

   Kimberley R. Allison: "Navigating Negativity in Research: Methodological
   and Ethical Considerations in the Study of Antisocial, Subversive and Toxic
   Online Communities and Behaviours" (paper 1)
   -

   Emmi Bevensee, Maxwell Aliapoulios, Quinn Dougherty, Jason Baumgartner,
   Damon McCoy and Jeremy Blackburn: "SMAT: The Social Media Analysis Toolkit"
   (paper 11)
   -

   Taichi Murayama, Shoko Wakamiya and Eiji Aramaki: "Fake News Detection
   using Temporal Features Extracted via Point Process" (paper 3)
   -

   Chen Ling and Gianluca Stringhini: "Examining the Impact of Social
   Distance on the Reaction to a Tragedy: A Case Study on Sulli’s Death"
   (paper 7)

12.30 – 12.50 PM – Synthesis/Brainstorming exercise, resulting in paper
concepts for impactful future research, 20-minute discussion session.

12.50 – 1.00 PM – Closing Remarks.