what we are working on
Find out more about our recent publications, presentations, and media contributions below. We list work from all group members since 2024 or before, if relevant to the concept of a human-centered internet and our focus on the digital public space.
humanet3 in the public
June 2025: We won the “Best Research Environment” prize awarded by Die Junge Akademie and the Volkswagen Foundation as one of 10 teams from various disciplines.
February 2025: We conducted our first international workshop in in Berlin on “Re-imagining Digital Public Spaces for Democracy: Interrelations and Forces” with over 35 participants from academia, policy and practice.
January 2025: We’ve been portrayed as group in the Max Planck Society’s research magazine, Max Planck Forschung. You can find out more about our work in Michaela Hutterer’s article “Brave New Online World“.
Publications
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Tuchtfeld, Neues aus dem Fernsehrat (113): Hass und Zusammenhalt, netzpolitik.org
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Tuchtfeld/Johannsen/Tiedeke/Yun, humanet3. The Third Attempt at a Human-centered Internet: A Research Agenda (September 2025), MPIL Research Paper & MPI for Innovation & Competition Research Paper
Find the paper here in the MPIL Research Paper Series and here in the MPI for Innovation & Competition Research Paper Series
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Tuchtfeld, Content Moderation Beyond Platforms: The Power and Human Rights Obligations of Infrastructure Service Providers, Technological change and international law: ESIL annual conference, Vilnius, 5-6 September 2024
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Tuchtfeld/Ruf, Sicherheitspaket 2.0: Palantir statt Grundrechtsschutz, Tagesspiegel Background: Digitalisierung & KI
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Tuchtfeld, Global Gatekeepers: Online Oversight and Internet Content Moderation, Max Planck Lawcast
Read the short paper or listen to the podcast
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Yun/Wagner/Heilinger, It is not about bias but discrimination, EWAF ’24: Proceedings of the 3rd European Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness. CEUR Workshop Proceedings
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Johannsen/Rodriguez, Monopsony Power, Competition Law, and Women’s Informal Labour Markets in Latin America, Journal of European Competition Law & Practice
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Kettemann/Tiedeke, Normativities, Normative Orders, and Pluralism, The Oxford Handbook of Digital Constitutionalism
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Tuchtfeld, AI Act: Was er regelt und wen er betrifft, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
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Tuchtfeld, Die Grenzen des Rechts: Warum es mehr als nur Regulierung braucht, um die Debattenkultur im Internet zu retten, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
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Yun as part of AI Ethics Newsletter, Automated sexual exploitation: Deepfake sex crimes and generative AI’s technology ethics, EPI
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Tuchtfeld/Risini/Gašperin Wischhoff, Symposium – Eyes Everywhere: Surveillance and Data Retention under the EU Charter, Verfassungsblog
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Tuchtfeld, Case law on content moderation and freedom of expression (2nd edition), Global Freedom of Expression, Special Collection of the Case Law on Freedom of Expression
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Tuchtfeld, Eyes Everywhere: The Proliferation of Public and Private Surveillance under the EU Charter, Verfassungsblog
Presentations
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Tuchtfeld, Keynote: Architektur der Überwachung? Eine kritische Analyse aktueller Entwicklungen der deutschen und europäischen Digitalgesetzgebung (Annual Conference of the Max Planck Society’s IT-Security and Data Protection Officers, Berlin)
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Tuchtfeld, Panel: Making a difference (Max Planck Law Annual Conference “Diversity”, Berlin)
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Tuchtfeld, Panel: CanadaStack meets EuroStack: How Canada and Europe can align on digital sovereignty (Heinrich-Böll Stiftung and The Canadian SHIELD Institute, Toronto)
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Tiedeke, Panel: International Law Publishing and ‘EDI’: Limits, Blindspots, and Alternatives (ESIL 2025, Berlin)
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Tuchtfeld, Panel: Her mit der Öffentlichkeitspolitik: Brauchen wir ein neues Politikfeld, um die Demokratie zu retten? (Publix, Berlin)
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Tuchtfeld, Introduction to the European Union’s Regulation of the Digital Public Space (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, online)
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Tuchtfeld, Hybrid threats and emerging technologies (DGAP – MPIL dialogue, Berlin)
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Yun, Workshop on Responsible innovation in AI and Peace and Security and the education of future AI practitioner (UNODA, SIPRI, New York)
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Yun, Generative AI’s increasing energy demand (Institute for Green Transformation, online)
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Tuchtfeld, „Auf dem Weg zur perfekten Welt? Künstliche Intelligenz und Menschenrechte“ (Hamburger Initiative für Menschenrechte Salon, Hamburg)
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Tuchtfeld, The Prohibition of Censorship in times of AI: Legal Challenges for the Prevention of Norm Violations Online (Research Seminar at Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn)
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Tuchtfeld, Content Moderation Beyond Platforms: The Power and Human Rights Obligations of Infrastructure Service Providers (Annual conference of the European Society for International Law (ESIL), Vilnius)
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Tuchtfeld/Hense/Fetic, Rechtliche Dimensionen der KI: Zwischen Innovation und Verantwortung (Veranstaltungsreihe: „K.I.ne Grenzen – Realität und Zukunftsfähigkeit von Künstlicher Intelligenz“, Dresden)
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Tiedeke, No Collective Here? – Collective Constitutional Counterstrategies in the Algorithmic Society (ICON-S “The Future of Public Law: Resilience, Sustainability and Artificial Intelligence”, Madrid)
Media
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Tiedeke, 6th Episode: The Moral Machine – with Iyad Rahwan, Digital Echoes: Listening to New Normativities
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Tuchtfeld, Wie lassen sich soziale Netzwerke regulieren, Erik Tuchtfeld?, Ach, Mensch! Podcast, detektor.fm
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Tuchtfeld, #45 Ohne Schutz? Die Integrität von Wahlen und ausländische Einflusskampagnen – with Henning Lahmann, Völkerrechtspodcast
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Dogot/Mignot-Mahdavi/Leiter/Tiedeke, Introducing the Second Seasons of Digital Echoes: Listening to New Normativities, Völkerrechtsblog
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Graf/Tuchtfeld, Nein, die EU kann die Bundestagswahl nicht für ungültig erklären, br24.de
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Johannsen, Qué es DeepSeek, la IA china más barata que censura y desafía a las tecnológicas de EE. UU., DW Español
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Tuchtfeld, #42 Mehr als nur Freiheit: Wirtschaftliche, soziale und kulturelle Menschenrechte – with Ibrahim Kanalan, Völkerrechtspodcast
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Tuchtfeld, #39 Targeted Killings: Von Tiergarten bis Teheran – with Kai Ambos, Völkerrechtspodcast
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Tuchtfeld, #38 Smarte Kriege: Künstliche Intelligenz in bewaffneten Konflikten – with Vanessa Vohs, Völkerrechtspodcast
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Tuchtfeld, #35 Global Animal Law: Eine kurze Geschichte der Subjektivität im Völkerrecht – with Anne Peters, Völkerrechtspodcast
