Cody Buntain
@cbuntain.bsky.social
Asst Professor @iSchoolUMD | associate @CSMaP | DCer | 💻 🏍️ 👨🏻🍼
Studying online behavior around crises and political discourse, manipulation, and information quality
Studying online behavior around crises and political discourse, manipulation, and information quality
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After the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, many users were kicked off Twitter. A study shows the “great deplatforming” caused a short spike in extremism but made the site less partisan a year later—a pattern not seen on Reddit. In PNAS Nexus: https://ow.ly/Chzq50XuORu
November 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
After the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, many users were kicked off Twitter. A study shows the “great deplatforming” caused a short spike in extremism but made the site less partisan a year later—a pattern not seen on Reddit. In PNAS Nexus: https://ow.ly/Chzq50XuORu
Excited to share the agenda for the Global Elections and Information Security workshop at WebSci 2025 this year!
Keynotes by the excellent Jo Lukito of UT-Austin and Dhanaraj Thakur of the Center for Democracy and Technology.
Keynotes by the excellent Jo Lukito of UT-Austin and Dhanaraj Thakur of the Center for Democracy and Technology.
May 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Excited to share the agenda for the Global Elections and Information Security workshop at WebSci 2025 this year!
Keynotes by the excellent Jo Lukito of UT-Austin and Dhanaraj Thakur of the Center for Democracy and Technology.
Keynotes by the excellent Jo Lukito of UT-Austin and Dhanaraj Thakur of the Center for Democracy and Technology.