Abstract

Cyber-bullying has emerged as one of the most common social problems in online social networks, where advanced techniques of detection are required against its overwhelming growth. As the fastest-moving entity, the digital communication mechanism still needs to develop more effective ways to locate and diminish Cyber-bullying cases, which is a crucial area of research in developing more sophisticated and accurate detection systems. This study is new as it utilizes novel technology called "BullyNet," the state–of–the–art deep learning model, to address the Cyber-bullying phenomenon uniquely. Our efforts in this study are to design and deploy BullyNet, a novel deep-learning model that combines cutting-edge feature extraction and representation techniques to distinguish Cyber-bullying activities from other types of online behavior appropriately. The model is designed to detect minutiae linguistic and contextual cues associated with online harassment, using a multi-layered approach to fine-tune and optimize its performance, which enables it to reduce false-harassment detections. The effectiveness of BullyNet was validated and verified through extensive testing and validation on a popularly diverse dataset drawn from various social networks online. The model that was developed exhibited a precipitous accuracy of up to 95% and displayed its advanced capability for detecting tricky bullying patterns while at the same time reducing deficient levels of false positives. Besides the described enhancement in cyber-harassment detection, this theme unveils an opportunity for a more secure and nurturing online social environment.

Keywords

Cyberspace, Bullying, Online Content, Detection, Accuracy, Preprocessing, Training, hybrid optimization, Social Networking,

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