Aim & Scope
As digital ecosystems become increasingly influential in shaping public discourse and facilitating the rapid global dissemination of content, they also pose pressing challenges – particularly the spread of unverified information often driven by personal opinions and beliefs. This growing prevalence of misinformation contributes to the erosion of public trust and threatens social and political stability, underscoring the urgent need for sustainable AI-driven approaches to detect, understand, and mitigate online information disorder.
This workshop aims to bring together interdisciplinary researchers and practitioners to explore innovative AI-driven solutions that combat the growing challenges of misinformation, disinformation, and online manipulation. Particular emphasis will be placed on contributions concerning misinformation handling and user behaviour modeling on the Web, recognizing the importance of understanding how individuals interact with and propagate information online. Emphasizing sustainability, the workshop will spotlight approaches that not only ensure effectiveness and fairness but also minimize environmental and social impact.
Call for Papers
Important dates
- Submission deadline:
September 15, 2025September 25, 2025 - Notification: October 6, 2025
- Camera-ready: October 13, 2025
Topics of interest
As digital ecosystems become increasingly influential in shaping public discourse and facilitating the rapid global dissemination of content, they also pose pressing challenges – particularly the spread of unverified information often driven by personal opinions and beliefs. This growing prevalence of misinformation contributes to the erosion of public trust and threatens social and political stability, underscoring the urgent need for sustainable AI-driven approaches to detect, understand, and mitigate online information disorder.
This workshop aims to bring together interdisciplinary researchers and practitioners to explore innovative AI-driven solutions that combat the growing challenges of misinformation, disinformation, and online manipulation. Emphasizing sustainability, the workshop will spotlight approaches that not only ensure effectiveness and fairness but also minimize environmental and social impact.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Misinformation and disinformation detection and mitigation
- Multimodal Fake News Detection
- Coordinated inauthentic behavior and Information Operations
- Content moderation strategies
- Online Knowledge Manipulation
- User behavior and engagement modeling
- Measuring and mitigating polarization
- Detecting and mitigating online extremism and propaganda
- Trust, influence and community dynamics
- Emotion, personality and identity in online discourse
- Influencer identification and community detection for movements
- Human-AI Feedback Loops
- Societies of LLMs and experimental LLMs studies
- Dataset and resources for studying Online Information Operations
Instruction for submission
The workshop welcomes full research papers, but also discussion papers that have already been presented at a conference or published in a journal, and demo papers including experimental research, case studies and student research papers. Papers must be submitted electronically in standard IEEE Conference Proceedings format (max 6 pages, but you can purchase maximum 2 extra pages per accepted paper, see Article Templates). Submitted papers will undergo a peer-review process, coordinated by the International Program Committee. All accepted new contributions will be published in a companion volume of the IEEE WIC ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI) (IEEE Xplore – Conference Table of Contents).
Workshop Program
Remote link: https://meet.google.com/cqs-qrmb-nrn
| Time | Event | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| 9:20-9:30 (GMT+0) | Welcome | WB.2.14 |
| 9:30-9:50 (GMT+0) |
Paper ID: S04203 Title: Federated Learning applied to the Quantification of Coordinated Information Operations Author: Gianluigi Folino, Marco Minici, and Michele Scinardo Tenghi |
WB.2.14 |
| 9:50-10:10 (GMT+0) |
Paper ID: S04207 Title: Minimal Perturbation Adversarial Attacks on Malware Classification Systems Author: Claudia Greco and Michele Ianni |
WB.2.14 |
| 10:10-10:30 (GMT+0) |
Paper ID: S04208 Title: Polarized Communities in Mastodon: Insights from Instance-Level Analysis Author: Lucio La Cava, Domenico Mandaglio, and Andrea Tagarelli |
WB.2.14 |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00-11:20 (GMT+0) |
Paper ID: S04202 Title: Predictive Process Monitoring with Second-Order Markov Models: An Interpretable and Sustainable Alternative to AI Author: Simona Fioretto, Elio Masciari, and Enea Vincenzo Napolitano |
WB.2.14 |
| 11:20-11:40 (GMT+0) |
Paper ID: S04206 Title: A Sustainable AI-based Solution for Workplace Injury Classification in Industry 5.0 Author: Alberto Falcone, Francesco Sergio Pisani, and Massimo Guarascio |
WB.2.14 |
| 11:40-12:40 (GMT+0) |
Invited Talk: Large language models in the age of misinformation Author: Francesco Pierri |
WB.2.14 |
Talk
Francesco Pierri
Invited SpeakerFrancesco Pierri is an Assistant Professor in the Data Science Lab within the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering (DEIB) at Politecnico di Milano, and an affiliate of Indiana University’s Observatory on Social Media (OSOME). His research lies at the intersection of AI and Computational Social Science, with a focus on trustworthy AI and the impact of generative technologies on digital ecosystems. He investigates large-scale online phenomena, develops methods to counter AI-driven misinformation, and works to enhance the safety, accountability, and integrity of digital platforms.
Organizers
Francesco Scala
Program Chair Organizer
Liliana Martirano
Program Chair Organizer
Marco Minici
Program Chair Organizer
Roberto Interdonato
Organizer
Luca Luceri
Organizer
Sergio Flesca
OrganizerProgram commitee members
Lucio La Cava (University of Calabria, Italy)Luca Ferragina (University of Calabria, Italy)
Domenico Mandaglio (University of Calabria, Italy)
Angelica Liguori (ICAR-CNR, Italy)
Mathieu Roche (CIRAD - UMR TETIS, France)
Mehtab Alam Syed (CIRAD - UMR TETIS, France)
Salvatore Citraro (ISTI-CNR, Italy)
Giovanni Palermo (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Martino Ciaperoni (Aalto University, Finland)
Remy Decoupes (INRAE - UMR TETIS, France)
Sarah Valentin (CIRAD - UMR TETIS, France)
Latest news
- Website online - 08/07/2025
- Website update with sponsors - 09/07/2025
- Updated call for papers - 11/07/2025
- Updated deadline - 10/09/2025
- Added details about invited speakers and program - 07/11/2025