Final Results of TWON
After three years of interdisciplinary research, the TWON, Twin of Online Social Networks project concluded with a final event in Berlin, where the international consortium presented key findings on how online platforms shape democratic discourse
TWON Policy Hackathon
As geopolitical tensions increasingly play out online, the need for a democratic digital public sphere has never been more urgent. Political interests, platform governance choices, and regulatory gaps all shape how online debate unfolds, but
TWON Consortium Meeting – a recap
Last week, the TWON consortium came together in Berlin to advance ongoing work on democratic online social networks and to strengthen the project’s dialogue with policy and civil society stakeholders. Across a series of internal
Research on Open Source LLM Safety at HICSS 2026
From January 6-9, 2026, TWON researcher Simon Münker presented his paper at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), one of the leading international conferences in the field of information systems and digital innovation.
From Research to Regulation: Rethinking Online Social Networks // January 28, Berlin
📆Date 28 January 2026, 6:00-9:30pm 🎯Location Publix, Hermannstraße 90, 12051 Berlin What do we know from research about the positive and negative effects of online social networks on societies? How can these platforms be designed
New Publication: Simulating Algorithmic Personalization and Polarization
We are pleased to announce a new peer-reviewed publication by Ljubiša Bojić, co-authored with Velibor Ilić, Veljko Prodanović, and Vuk Vuković, published in Chinese Political Science Review. The paper introduces the Recommender Systems LLMs Playground (RecSysLLMsP),