Cody Buntain

@cbuntain.bsky.social

Asst Professor @iSchoolUMD | associate @CSMaP | DCer | 💻 🏍️ 👨🏻‍🍼 Studying online behavior around crises and political discourse, manipulation, and information quality

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

Daily average post count by ideological lean. Hyper-partisan accounts, i.e., respondents who self-identify as “very liberal” and “very conservative,” are generally the most active.

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.

An image of the workshop agenda