TWin of Online Social Networks

Project Information

TWON

Grant agreement ID: 101095095

DOI

10.3030/101095095

Project closed

EC signature date 6 December 2022

Start date 1 April 2023

End date 31 March 2026

Funded under

• Culture, creativity and inclusive society

Total cost

€ 2 989 758,13

EU contribution

€ 2 989 758,13

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM
Netherlands

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (1)

Impact assessment and ethical/legal guidance handbook

Report about ethical and legal regulatory standards. Including an ethical and legal guidance handbook based on an integrated ethical, legal, and socio-economic impact assessment of TWONs and

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Website

Public Project Website set up and released, using a .eu domain and the project acronym as part of the domain name, including a finalized version of the project logo.

Publications

Conference proceedings (15)

Zero-shot prompt-based classification: topic labeling in times of foundation models in German Tweets

Author(s): Simon Münker, Kai Kugler, Achim Rettinger
Published in: Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop), 2025
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/V1/2025.ACL-SRW.4

Towards Simulating Social Media Users with LLMs: Evaluating the Operational Validity of Conditioned Comment Prediction

Author(s): Schwager N.; Münker, S.; Plum A; Rettinger A
Published in: The Proceedings for the 15th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2026), 2026
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics

Don’t Trust Generative Agents to Mimic Communication on Social Networks Unless You Benchmarked their Empirical Realism

Author(s): Simon Münker, Nils Schwager, Achim Rettinger
Published in: Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2026
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/V1/2026.EACL-LONG.51

Emergent Behaviors from LLM-Agent Simulations

Author(s): Adrian Mladenic Grobelnik,Faizon Zaman, Jofre Espigule-Pons, Marko Grobelnik
Published in: Data Mining and Data Warehouses - SiKDD : Information Society - IS 2023 : proceedings of the 26th international multiconference, 2023, ISSN 2630-371X
Publisher: SiKDD : Information Society - IS 2023

Classification of Sparse and Irregularly Sampled Time Series with Convolutional Neural Networks

Author(s): Buza, Krisztian Antal
Published in: 2023
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8186573

Fact Manipulation in News: LLM-Driven Synthesis and Evaluation of Fake News Annotation

Author(s): Luka Golob, Abdul Sittar
Published in: Data Mining and Data Warehouses - SiKDD : proceedings of the 28th International Multiconference, Issue C, 2024, ISSN 2630-371X
Publisher: Information Society 2024
DOI: 10.70314/IS.2024.SIKDD.13

Refining Deliberative Standards for Online Political Communication: Introducing a Summative Approach to Designing Deliberative Recommender Systems

Author(s): Sjoerd B. Stolwijk, Corinna Oschatz, Michael Heseltine, Damian Trilling
Published in: Proceedings of the First Workshop on the Normative Design and Evaluation of Recommender Systems (NORMalize 2023) co-located with the 17th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2023), 2023, ISSN 1613-0073
Publisher: CEUR

Towards AI-powered real-time negotiation agent

Author(s): Martin ŽUST, Marko GROBELNIK, Adrian MLADENIĆ GROBELNIK, Abdul SITTAR
Published in: Joint proceedings of the ESWC 2025 Workshops and Tutorials co-located with 22nd Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2025), Issue 3977, 2025, ISSN 1613-0073
Publisher: ESWC 2025

An approach to creating a time-series dataset for news propagation: Ukraine-war case study

Author(s): Abdul Sittar, Dunja Mladenić
Published in: Data Mining and Data Warehouses - SiKDD : Information Society - IS 2023, Issue 9, 2023, ISSN 2630-371X
Publisher: SiKDD : Information Society

Time Series Forecasting with Distortion-Aware Convolutional Neural Networks

Author(s): Buza, Krisztian Antal
Published in: 2023
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8186596

Perception of AI in Slovenia

Author(s): Abdul SITTAR, Alenka GUČEK, Dunja MLADENIĆ
Published in: Data Mining and Data Warehouses - SiKDD : Information Society - IS 2023 : proceedings of the 27h international multiconference, Issue C, 2024, ISSN 2630-371X
Publisher: Information Society - IS - SiKDD 2024
DOI: 10.70314/IS.2024.SIKDD.14

Fingerprinting LLMs through Survey Item Factor Correlation: A Case Study on Humor Style Questionnaire

Author(s): Simon Münker
Published in: Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2025
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/V1/2025.EMNLP-MAIN.13

Guardrail Vulnerabilities in Open-Source Language Models: Implications for Democratic Discourse and Marginalized Communities

Author(s): Simon Münker, Fabio Sartori
Published in: Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Proceedings of the 59th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2026
Publisher: Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
DOI: 10.24251/HICSS.2026.804

Demokratiegefährdende Plattform-Mechanismen–Erkennen, Verstehen, Bekämpfen.

Author(s): Bezzaoui, Isabel; Nevena Nikolajevic, and Jonas Fegert
Published in: KI| Konflikte| Konventionen–PolKomm2023, 2023
Publisher: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000161914

Cultural Bias in Large Language Models: Evaluating AI Agents through Moral Questionnaires

Author(s): Simon Münker
Published in: Proceedings of 0th Moral and Legal AI Alignment Symposium, 2025
Publisher: Joint International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) and the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) Conference on Philosophy of Computing and AI (IACAP/AISB-25)

Peer reviewed articles (10)

Integrating European contexts and needs into WHO guiding principles on online mental health content for young people: five recommendations.

Author(s): Helena Ludwig-Walz, Martin Bujard, Jonas Fegert & Jörg M. Fegert
Published in: European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2024, ISSN 1435-165X
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s00787-024-02566-9

AI alignment: Assessing the global impact of recommender systems.

Author(s): Bojic, Ljubisa
Published in: Futures, Issue 160, 2024, ISSN 0016-3287
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2024.103383

Does GPT-4 surpass human performance in linguistic pragmatics?

Author(s): Ljubiša Bojić; Predrag Kovačević; Milan Čabarkapa
Published in: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2025, ISSN 2662-9992
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2312.09545

Political Bias in LLMs: Unaligned Moral Values in Agent-centric Simulations

Author(s): Simon Münker
Published in: Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics, 2025, ISSN 2190-6858
Publisher: German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (GSCL)
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2408.11415

CERN for AI: a theoretical framework for autonomous simulation-based artificial intelligence testing and alignment

Author(s): Ljubiša Bojić, Matteo Cinelli, Dubravko Ćulibrk & Boris Delibašić
Published in: European Journal of Futures Research, 2024, ISSN 2195-2248
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1186/s40309-024-00238-0

Profiling the barriers to the spreading of news using news headlines

Author(s): Abdul Sittar, Dunja Mladenić, Marko Grobelnik
Published in: Frontiers in artificial intelligence, Issue 6, 2023, ISSN 2624-8212
Publisher: Frontiers
DOI: 10.3389/frai.2023.1225213

Can we use automated approaches to measure the quality of online political discussion? How to (not) measure interactivity, diversity, rationality, and incivility in online comments to the news

Author(s): Sjoerd B. Stolwijk, Mark Boukes, Wang Ngai Yeung, Yufang Liao, Simon Münker, Anne C. Kroon, Damian Trilling
Published in: Communication Methods and Measures, Issue 20, 2025, ISSN 1931-2458
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/19312458.2025.2553300

The dual impact of virtual reality: examining the addictive potential and therapeutic applications of immersive media in the metaverse

Author(s): Ljubiša Bojić, Jörg Matthes, Agariadne Dwinggo Samala, Milan Čabarkapa
Published in: Information, Communication & Society, Issue 29, 2025, ISSN 1369-118X
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2025.2520005

An Agent‑Based Simulation of Politicized Topics Using Large Language Models: Algorithmic Personalization and Polarization on Social Media

Author(s): Ljubiša Bojić; Velibor Ilić; Veljko Prodanović; Vuk Vuković
Published in: Chinese Political Science Review, 2025, ISSN 2365-4252
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/S41111-025-00326-X

Digital Democracy: A Wake-Up Call – How IS Research Can Contribute to Strengthening the Resilience of Modern Democracies

Author(s): Weinhardt, C.; Fegert, J.; Hinz, O.; Aalst, W. M. P. van der
Published in: Business & Information Systems Engineering, 2024, ISSN 2363-7005
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/S12599-024-00862-X

Monographic books (1)

Navigating the Digital Age. An In-Depth Exploration into the Intersection of Modern Technologies and Societal Transformation

Author(s): Bojić, Ljubiša; Žikić, Simona; Matthes, Jörg; Trilling, Damian
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Belgrade: Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory

Other (1)

Website

Publisher: FZI