A New Model for a Secure Social Media Application

Abstract

The progress of data technology and wireless networks is generated by open online communication channels. Unfortunately, trolls are abusing the technology for executing cyberattacks and threats. An automated cybersecurity solution is vital for avoiding the threats and security issues from social media. This can be a requirement for tackling and considering cyberbullying in various aspects including prevention of such incidents and automated detection. This study introduces a novel Artificial Fish Swarm Algorithm with Weighted Extreme Learning Machine (AFSA-WELM) model for cybersecurity on social media. The proposed model is mostly intended to detect the existence of cyberbullying on social media. The proposed model starts by processing the dataset and making it ready for the next stages of the model. It then uses the TF-IDF vectorizer for word embedding. After that, it uses the WELM model for the identification and classification of cyberbullying. Finally, the optimal tunning parameters used in the WELM model are derived for the AFSA model. The experimental analysis has shown that the proposed model achieves maximum accuracy compared with existing algorithms. Moreover, our proposed model achieves maximum precision–recall performance with various datasets.