Max van Drunen is a researcher at the Institute for Information Law. His research explores the regulation of technologies used to produce and distribute public interest content such as news and political expressions. In that context he has for example explored how EU law can safeguard media freedom from AI companies, how data access regulations can empower researchers to study online platforms, and how platforms can be prohibited from targeting political advertisements in a discriminatory manner.
As part of the Horizon funded WHAT-IF project, he is currently collaborating with other researchers to develop a digital twin of the political information environment to allow researchers and regulators to model risks and tests regulatory interventions concerning disinformation, polarisation, and quality journalism.