WEB&GRAPH 2026 Workshop Report

The first edition of the Workshop on Web & Graphs, Responsible Intelligence, and Social Media (WEB&GRAPH 2026) was successfully held on February 26, 2026, in Boise, Idaho, as part of the WSDM 2026 conference. The workshop brought together approximately 25 researchers and practitioners from web search, data mining, artificial intelligence, and social sciences to discuss algorithmic, theoretical, and methodological advances for dynamic, reliable, and human-aligned graph analytics. The program featured a keynote by Prof. Evangelos Papalexakis on tensor and graph methods, presentations of 10 accepted papers covering topics from graph fairness and misinformation detection to LLM-graph integration and heterogeneous graph learning, a panel discussion on graph algorithms and web intelligence, and a best paper award ceremony. This report summarizes the workshop objectives, activities, key outcomes, and future research directions identified by the community.