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.