E-Community Health and Toxicity

Online communities abound today, arising on social networking sites, on the websites of real-world communities like schools or clubs, on web discussion forums, on the discussion boards of videogames, and even on the comment pages of news sites and blogs. Some of these communities are “healthy” and foster polite discussion between respectful members, but others are “toxic” and devolve into virulent fights, trolling, cyber-bullying, fraud, or worse even, incitation to suicide, radicalization, or the sexual predation and grooming of minors. Detecting toxic messages and toxic users is a major challenge, in part because they are adversarial users who are actively trying to circumvent or fool detection software and filters. TO BE CONT’D

Faculty Supervisor:

Fred Popowich;Richard Khoury;David Campbell;Jun Chen;Moulay Akhloufi;Mario Marchand;Sehl Mellouli;Luc Lamontagne

Student:

Partner:

Two Hat Security Research Corp

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McMaster University; Simon Fraser University; Université de Moncton; Université Laval

Program: