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, 2025 September 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
Sustainability Focus: Submissions are especially encouraged to highlight green approaches - including energy-efficient methods, low-resource algorithms, and environmentally sustainable practices - in addressing the listed topics.


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 Speaker

Francesco 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

Organizer


Program 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