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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Tiedeke, Joint Book Review Symposium on International Organizations, Völkerrechtsblog
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Tuchtfeld, Eine allgemeine Verpflichtung zur Überwachung – Wie der EuGH das Haftungsregime der europäischen Plattformregulierung auf den Kopf stellt, Verfassungsblog
Read the Article and for the English Version, read the Article here
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Henning/Langenbach, Bridging the Human–AI Fairness Gap: How Providing Reasons Enhances the Perceived Fairness of Public Decision-Making, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies
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Johannsen et al., Data Governance in Emerging Economies to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals – Brazil Country Report Based on the Workshop ‘Data Governance for Climate Action in Brazil’ (São Paulo, 15-16 December 2022)
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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
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Starke/Ventura/Bersch/Cha/de Vreese/Doebler/Dong/Krämer/Leib/Peter/ Schäfer/Soraperra/Szczuka/Tuchtfeld/ Wald/Köbis, Risks and protective measures for synthetic relationships, Nature Human Behaviour
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Hauck/Tiedeke, Embracing ‘Pataphysics of International Law: Introducing reflectiÖns on Dis:Order in International Law, Völkerrechtsblog
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Tuchtfeld, No Backdoor for Mass Surveillance: The European Court of Human Rights Protects the Right to Encrypted Communication, Verfassungsblog
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Tiedeke/Fertmann, A Love Triangle? Mapping Interactions between International Human Rights Institutions, Meta and Its Oversight Board, European Journal of International Law
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Tuchtfeld, Case law on content moderation and freedom of expression, Global Freedom of Expression, Special Collection of the Case Law on Freedom of Expression
Presentations
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Henning, Presentation: Empirical Insights on Algorithmic Explanations in Public Decision-Making (iCourts-Centre of Excellence for International Courts and Governance, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
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Johannsen, Presentation: Competition Law in Germany: Fairness & Remedies (UCL and Universidad de Chile joint conference Competition Law and Economic Regulation Remedies: opening the black box)
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Johannsen, Conference: II Law & the Amazon International Conference, Thinking Locally and Beyond the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30) (Federal University of Pará, Belem, Brazil)
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Johannsen, Presentation: Algorithmic Personalisation in EU Law Regulating Digital Markets. Towards a Regulatory Theory from Relational Epistemics and Resource Egalitarianism (UCL/ Cambridge Competition Hub)
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Johannsen, Presentation: For Battles for Pluralism: Regulation of Media Pluralism and Social Media Governance (UCL Seminars, Law Faculty)
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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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Johannsen, Presentation: Algorithmic Personalisation Practices. EU Competition & Consumers Law (UK Government – Department for Business and Trade. Consumer and Competition Policy Directorate).
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Johannsen, Presentation: Algorithmic Personalisation Practices and EU Competition Law (University of Bristol, Centre for Global Law and Innovation)
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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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Yun, Presentation: (Digital) Public Space and Democracy Workshop (Long Night of Science 2025 MPI for Human Development, Berlin)
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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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Yun, Presentation: AI Safety and Deepfake (Yonsei University, Department of Political Science and International Relations (Seoul, online)
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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)
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von Bogdandy/Cartabia/Cassesse/ Tuchtfeld (chaired by Crego), Panel: The resilience of Republicanism, global, European, national, digital (ICON-S “The Future of Public Law: Resilience, Sustainability and Artificial Intelligence”, Madrid)
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Yun, Ethics for Computational Social Sciences (Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (WZB), Berlin)
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Tuchtfeld, The first of its kind: The EU’s AI Act as an attempt to comprehensively regulate the use Artificial Intelligence (Seminar series of the Center for Humans and Machines, Berlin)
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Johannsen/Banda, Presentation of the working paper: “Commons for the Commons: Climate Action in the Amazon through Data Collaboratives” (Data for Policy, Imperial College London)
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Yun/Wagner/Heilinger, It’s not about bias but Discrimination (Third European Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness (EWAF ’24), Mainz)
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Johannsen, Lecture: “Regulation of the Platform Economy” (LL.M. program of the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center, Munich)
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Tuchtfeld, Fighting Digital Crime without Mass Surveillance: It’s possible! [Digitale Kriminalitätsbekämpfung ohne Massenüberwachung: Das geht!] (re:publica 2024, Berlin)
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Yun, ´K-Datasets: The More the Merrier?´ (Lake Como School of Advanced Studies – Summer School of Computational Social Science, Como)
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Yun/Jeon/Koh, ´K-Datasets: The More the Merrier?´ (Workshop at Global AI Cultures at the 12th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Vienna)
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Yun, Unraveling Bias: Why do we care? (Max Planck Law Tech Society Graduate Student Symposium, online)
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Tiedeke, Taking a road less travelled: A critical redescription of interactions as languages meeting in the contact zone (ESIL Research Forum ‘Revisiting Interactions between Legal Orders’, Nicosia)
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Tuchtfeld, The Prohibition of Censorship in the Digital Public (Das Zensurverbot in der digitalen Öffentlichkeit), (Blankensee-Colloquium on Freedom of Expression, Berlin)
Media
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Tuchtfeld, #52 Anerkennung von Regierungen: Zwischen Legitimität und Effektivität – with Helmut Aust, Völkerrechtspodcast
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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
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Johannsen/Matarazzi, Discussion about the “Position Statement of the MPI for Innovation and Competition on the Implementation of the DMA”, Weizenbaum Institut, PLAMADISO Talk Series
