Workshop on Online Misinformation- and Harm-Aware Recommender Systems

Co-located with RecSys 2020


September, 25th - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Full Program


  • 14:00 - 14:05 -- Welcome

  • 14:05 - 14:55 -- Keynote: Mining social networks to learn about rumors, hate speech, bias and polarization by Bárbara Poblete

  • 14:55 - 15:20 -- Recommender Systems and Misinformation: The Problem or the Solution? (M. Fernandez and A. Bellogin)

  • 15:20 - 15:35 -- Making Session-based News Recommenders Diversity-aware (A. Gharahighehi and C. Vens)

15:35 - 16:30 -- Break

  • 16:30 - 16:50 -- Talk: Moderation Meets Recommendation: Perspectives on the Role of Policies in Harm-Aware Recommender Ecosystems by Martha Larson

  • 16:50 - 17:15 -- TexTrolls: Identifying Trolls on Twitter with Textual and Affective Features (B. Ghanem, D. Buscaldi and P. Rosso)

  • 17:15 - 17:30 -- Botcha: Detecting Malicious Non-Human Traffic in the Wild (S. Dhamnani, R. Sinha, V. Vinay, L. Kumari and M. Savova)

  • 17:30 - 17:55 -- A nudge-based recommender system towards responsible online socializing (R. Ben Salem, E. Aimeur and H. F. Hage)

  • 17:55 - 18:00 -- Closing

All times are UTC+0 .

Note to presenters: Presentation time includes five minutes for questions!