Publications

Wang, Y., Vu, H. G. H., & Singhal, M. (2026). The Tag is the Signal: URL-Agnostic Credibility Scoring for Messages on Telegram. To appear in ICWSM 2027. {arXiv preprint}.

Shin, H., Moon, H., & Singhal, M. (2026). How Diplomacy Reshapes Online Discourse: Asymmetric Persistence in Framing of North Korea on Reddit. To appear in ICWSM 2027. {arXiv preprint}.

Aleksandric, A., Singhal, M., Groggel, A., & Nilizadeh, S. (2026, June). The Power of Social Norms: How Initial Responses to Toxicity Shape Conversations on Twitter. In the 7th International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats (CySoc) at the International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2026). {Paper}.

Moosavi Khorzooghi, S. M. S., Thota, P., Singhal, M., Asudeh, A., Das, G., & Nilizadeh, S. (2026, June). Unequal Privacy: Auditing Demographic Bias Vulnerabilities in Visual Protection Systems. In Proceedings of the ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (pp. 1291-1306). {Paper}.

PettyJohn, M. E., Cary, K. M., Dandekar, S., Singhal, M., Nilizadeh, S., & Voth Schrag, R. (2026, January). Characteristics of technology-facilitated abuse and safety strategies discussed in the Reddit community, r/stalking. [Poster]. Society for Social Work and Research, Washington, D.C.

Khorzooghi, S. M. S. M., Thota, P., Singhal, M., Asudeh, A., Das, G., & Nilizadeh, S. (2025, August). [Poster] FairDeFace: Evaluating the Fairness and Adversarial Robustness of Face Obfuscation Methods. In USENIX Security 2025.

Kumarswamy, N.*, Singhal, M.*, & Nilizadeh, S. (2025, April). Causal Insights into Parler’s Content Moderation Shift: Effects on Toxicity and Factuality. In Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025 (pp. 3762-3771). (* Joint Co-First Authors) ACM WWW 2025.

Vafa, E. P.*, Singhal, M.*, Thota, P., & Roy, S. S. (2024, November). Learning from Censored Experiences: Social Media Discussions around Censorship Circumvention Technologies. In 2025 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP) (pp. 62-62). IEEE Computer Society. (* Joint Co-First Authors) IEEE S&P 2025.

Singhal, M., Pacheco, J., Moosavi Khorzooghi, S. M. S., Debi, T., Asudeh, A., Das, G., & Nilizadeh, S. (2025). Auditing Yelp’s Business Ranking and Review Recommendation Through the Lens of Fairness. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 19(1), 1798-1816. ICWSM 2025.

Singhal, M., Ling, C., Paudel, P., Thota, P., Kumarswamy, N., Stringhini, G., & Nilizadeh, S. (2022). SoK: Content Moderation in Social Media, from Guidelines to Enforcement, and Research to Practice. In 8th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy IEEE EuroS&P 2023.

Singhal, M., Kumarswamy, N., Kinhekar, S., & Nilizadeh, S. (2021). Cybersecurity Misinformation Detection on Social Media: Case Studies on Phishing Reports and Zoom’s Threats. In 17th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media ICWSM 2023.

Singhal, M., Kumarswamy, N., Kinhekar, S., & Nilizadeh, S. (2021). Poster: Detecting Misinformation about Zoom’s Security and Privacy Threats. In NDSS 2022. Recieved Best Technical Poster

Singhal, M., & Levine, D. (2019, October). Analysis and categorization of drive-by download malware. In 2019 4th International Conference on Computing, Communications and Security ICCCS.