Social media platforms navigate a growing range of harms, including misinformation, hate speech, harassment, and exploitative material. Content moderation is an essential yet increasingly complex component of how these platforms maintain safe and inclusive online environments. While significant research has focused on developing detection mechanisms for multiple online harms, other critical aspects of the moderation process remain underexplored, including the definition of community guidelines, the design of intervention strategies, and the development of robust methodologies to evaluate moderation outcomes. Addressing these challenges requires a holistic, multidisciplinary approach that bridges computational methods and analytics, human and ethical factors, and evolving transnational regulatory frameworks. This workshop aims to foster a comprehensive dialogue on content moderation, engaging researchers and practitioners from diverse backgrounds, including social computing and computational social science, law, human-computer interaction, and platform governance.

Submission Guidelines

All contributions should be anonymized and will be reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee. All papers should be written in English and should be formatted according to AAAI ICWSM’25 guidelines. Papers should be submitted as a single PDF file via EasyChair. Accepted papers will be published after the workshop as part of AAAI ICWSM’25 proceedings. A mandatory condition for inclusion in the proceedings is that at least one author presents the paper at the workshop.

We accept the following types of submissions:

• Research papers (up to 10 pages including references, but excluding appendices) presenting novel original work not published or submitted elsewhere.
• Resource papers (up to 10 pages including references, but excluding appendices) presenting new datasets, applications, softwares, or demos.
• Vision and position papers (up to 5 pages including references and appendices) presenting new ideas.
• Work-in-progress papers (up to 5 pages including references, but excluding appendices) presenting preliminary results.

At the time of submission, authors should specify whether they want their paper to be included in the conference proceedings (archival) or not (non-archival). Non-archival submissions can present relevant work recently accepted or currently submitted at other venues.

List of Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Community guidelines and policy formulation
• Intervention strategies and efficacy
• Measurement and metrics for moderation success
• Human factors in content moderation
• Cross-cultural and social dimensions of content moderation
• Normative and legal challenges in content moderation
• Ethical considerations in content moderation
• Data access for content moderation
• Decentralized content moderation
• Future technologies and content moderation

Important Dates

• Submission deadline: April 7, 2025
• Notification: May 2, 2025
• Camera-ready: May 9, 2025
• Workshop: June 23, 2025

Organizers

• Stefano Cresci, IIT-CNR, Italy
• Savvas Zannettou, TU Delft, Netherlands
• Catalina Goanta, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
• Shagun Jhaver, Rutgers University, USA
• Robyn Caplan, Duke University, USA

Contact

All inquiries should be directed to compass-workshop@googlegroups.com