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In March 2026, the TWON consortium developed its third and final policy brief, presenting policy recommendations for shaping online social networks in line with democratic values, fundamental rights, and European digital sovereignty.

At the end of March, the Jožef Stefan Institute, the Slovenian Press Agency (STA), and the University of Maribor hosted a joint event exploring how modern AI tools can be integrated into the media landscape and how they can support journalistic work in an …

On 17 March 2026, we held our final TWON evening event in Brussels, bringing together policymakers, researchers, civil society representatives, and practitioners to discuss how Europe can strengthen digital sovereignty in the digital public sphere.

The fourth and final TWON Citizen Lab took place in Brussels from 14 to 18 March 2026. Bringing together young leaders from various communities from all over Europe came together to discuss a digital and sovereign European future.

After three years of interdisciplinary research, the TWON – Twin of Online Social Networks project concluded with a final event on 28 January 2026 at Publix Berlin.

As geopolitical tensions increasingly play out online, the need for a democratic digital public sphere has never been more urgent.

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.

At this year’s European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) in Rabat, Morocco, Simon Münker, Nils Schwager and Achim Rettinger presented two new TWON papers on the simulation of social media users with Large Language Models (LLMs).

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.