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),
Rethinking AI for Democratic Societies – Joint Event in Ljubljana, October 14
On October 14, partners from the projects AI4Gov, SOLARIS, and TWON gathered in Ljubljana to explore how artificial intelligence can support democracy, transparency, and citizen participation. The event titled AI, Democracy and the Public Interest:
Out now: Our new demonstrator tool TWONderland
In the past weeks, our TWON researcher Fabio Sartori (KIT) and his colleagues worked on a new demonstrator tool to make the dynamics of Online Social Networks tangible for the broad public. The result is: