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Cody Buntain

@cbuntain.bsky.social

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

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Melina Much @melinamuch.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I wrote a piece for @slate.com on Gen Z, sexism, and why the “most progressive generation ever” narrative misses something important. Short version: Gen Z is uniquely progressive on race. On gender, not so much. slate.com/news-and-pol...

slate.com

Gen Z Is More Progressive Than Millennials, Except in One Crucial Way

The most open-minded generation ever? It’s complicated.

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PNAS Nexus @pnasnexus.org · 21/11/2025

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: 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.

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Cody Buntain @cbuntain.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

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.

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