Blockchain Leveraged Cyberbullying Preventing framework

Abstract The popularity of social media has exploded worldwide over the last few decades and becomes the most preferred mode of social interaction. The internet also provides a new platform through which adolescents are being bullied. Appropriate means of cyberbullying detection is still partial and in some cases very limited. Moreover, research on cyberbullying detection extensively focuses on surveys and its psychological impacts on victims. However, prevention has not been widely addressed. To bridge the gap, this paper aims to detect cyberbullying efficiently. This paper employs a standard machine learning method and natural language processing technique as a part of the detection process in decentralized Blockchain leveraged architecture. We provide a fog based architecture for cyberbullying detection, aiming at relieving the server's load by placing the detection and the prevention of cyberbullying processes at the fog layer. The proposal might offer a probable solution to save users, particularly adolescents from severe consequences of cyberbullying.