Media Coverage
Below is a selection of media coverage featuring my research and commentary. Articles are sorted by topic (but chronologically within the categories). Articles authored by me are marked with a * and my name in bold. Older entries before 2024 are currently missing and will be updated as soon as I find the time.
AI, Information and News
- *Simon, F. M.* (2025, December 5). The AI bubble may pop. People’s use of AI for information won’t. Nieman Lab.
- *Simon, F. M.* (2025, October 8). People are using ChatGPT twice as much as they were last year. They’re still just as skeptical of AI in news. Nieman Lab.
- Stokel-Walker, C. (2025, September 16). Around one-third of AI search tool answers make unsupported claims. New Scientist.
- Bearne, S. (2025, September 9). Publishers fear AI summaries are hitting online traffic. BBC News.
- Stokel-Walker, C. (2025, August 14). Synthetic data is the new AI gold rush, but critics call it ‘data laundering’. Fast Company.
- Gerstein, J., & Sullivan, M. (2025, June 26). Can AI tools meet journalistic standards? So far, the results are spotty. Columbia Journalism Review.
- Zambrana, M. (2025, June 30). AI and journalism: This could be the beginning of a great codependency. Letras Libres.
- Reilly, L. (2025, May 28). More than 2 years after ChatGPT, newsrooms still struggle with AI’s shortcomings. CNN.
- Minsberg, T. (2025, May 21). A.I.-Generated reading list in Chicago Sun-Times recommends nonexistent books. The New York Times.
- Ford, M., & Eisele, I. (2025, May 17). Fact check: How trustworthy are AI fact checks? Deutsche Welle.
- Nierenberg, A. (2025, May 8). Agatha Christie, who died in 1976, will see you in class. The New York Times.
- The Times. (2025, March 10). Letter to the editor: An ethical AI. The Times.
- Guaglione, S. (2025, March 4). Journalists are using generative AI tools without company oversight, study finds. Digiday.
- Hamilton, I. A. (2025, February 23). Whatever happened to all those AI copyright lawsuits? The Daily Upside.
- *Simon, F. M. (2025, February 11). Is it a good idea to use AI to clone real journalists’ voices? It depends how you interpret the question. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
- Media Confidential Podcast (2024, December 19). AI: Powering newsrooms of the future? Prospect Magazine.
- *Simon, F. M. (2024, November 21). Neither humans-in-the-loop nor transparency labels will save the news media when it comes to AI. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
- Higgins, A. (2024, November 3). A radio station in Poland fired its on-air talent and brought in A.I.-generated presenters. The New York Times.
- Mahadevan, A. (2024, November 1). ChatGPT rolls out a Google competitor with a skewed view of the news. Poynter.
- Streever, D. (2024, October 11). How is artificial intelligence being used in journalism now? What's coming next? WWXI News at NPR.
- *Simon, F. M. (2024, October 10). We need clarity about the deals between AI companies and news publishers. Here’s why. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
- Scrimgeour, G. (2024, September 11). An AI bot named James has my old local news job. Wired.
- *Simon, F. M., Fletcher, R., & Nielsen, R. K. (2024, July 2). How AI chatbots responded to questions about the 2024 UK election. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
- Orsi, J. (2024, June 27). We asked people about using AI to make the news. They’re anxious and annoyed. Poynter.
- *Simon, F. M. (2024, June 11). What works: Effective strategies for reporting on AI. EBU.
- *Simon, F. M., Adami, M., Kahn, G., & Fletcher, R. (2024, June 6). How AI chatbots responded to basic questions about the 2024 European elections right before the vote. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
- Guaglione, S. (2024, June 4). The pros and cons of publishers’ AI licensing deals. Digiday. (Wayback Machine)
- Swant, M. (2024, May 24). Why publishers fear traffic, ad declines from Google’s AI-generated search results. Digiday. (Wayback Machine)
- Guaglione, S. (2023, December 7). Media briefing: Publishers’ generative AI task forces have evolved into a more distributed model of experimentation. Digiday.
- Scire, S. (2023, December 5). Most readers want publishers to label AI-generated articles — but trust outlets less when they do. Nieman Lab.
- Dudley, B. (2023, December 6). Free press roundup: Bellingham Daily cutting print days plus layoffs, AI. The Seattle Times.
- ETX Daily Up. (2023, December 6). Les Américains pensent que les articles rédigés par une IA seraient "une mauvaise chose". La Dépêche.
Misinformation
- Stokel-Walker, C. (2025, November 19).Misinformation sites have an open-door policy for AI scrapers. Fast Company.
- *Simon, F. M. (2025, October 1). AI is persuasive, but that’s not the real problem for democracy. Transformer.
- *Simon, F. M., & Altay, S. (2025, July 23). Consequences of a skewed discourse around generative AI and elections. Oxford Internet Institute.
- Durán San Juan, I. (2025, July 19). Por qué los humanos deberían importarnos más que la IA generativa en las elecciones de cualquier país. Infobae.
- *Simon, F. M., & Altay, S. (2025, July 17). Generative AI and elections: Why you should worry more about humans than AI systems. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
- Krietzberg, I. (2025, July 17). Murati’s 12B reveal, Nvidia’s Trump greenlight & an AI coding gut check. Puck.
- D’Agostino, S. (2025, July 14). AI is polluting truth in journalism. Here’s how to disrupt the misinformation feedback loop. The Bulletin.
- Wutscher, I. (2025, February 10). “AI Slop” ist das neue Spam. ORF Wissen.
- Bayley, S. (2025, February 7). Picture of Mexican president wearing a ‘Make America Mexicana Again’ hat is fake. Yahoo News UK.
- Merlan, A. (2024, September). How disinformation research came under fire. Mother Jones.
- Borchardt, A. (2024, June 24). Gesellschaft des Misstrauens. Internationale Politik.
- Allyn, B. (2024, June 3). 'All eyes on Rafah' is the Internet's most viral AI image. Two artists are claiming credit. NPR. (Wayback Machine)
- Gold, H. (2024, May 31). A national network of local news sites is publishing AI-written articles under fake bylines. Experts are raising alarm. CNN. (Wayback Machine)
AI and Democracy
- Mantzarlis, A. (2025, December 17). Elon Musk is this year’s king of digital deception. Indicator.
- Meier, C. J. (2025, December 12). Die Kraft des Chatbot-Arguments: Können KI-Modelle Menschen in politischen Debatten beeinflussen? RiffReporter.
- Herrmann, S. (2025, December 7). «Schockierend grosser Effekt» – wie Chatbots Wählerinnen und Wähler beeinflussen können. Der Bund.
- Holland, M. (2025, December 5). AI chatbots can change political preferences more than election advertising. Heise Online.
- Stieler, W. (2025, December 5). KI im Wahlkampf: Wie Chatbots unsere Wahlentscheidung beeinflussen. t3n – MIT Technology Review News.
- Hegemann, L. (2025, December 4). Kann KI beeinflussen, wen wir wählen? Zeit Online.
- Sica, J. (2025, December 4). Kann die Konversation mit Chatbots die politische Meinung ändern? Der Standard.
- Herrmann, S. (2025, December 4). Wie Chatbots Wähler beeinflussen. Süddeutsche Zeitung.
- *Simon, F. M. (2025, January 20). What should we make of Meta killing fact-checking? NIKKEI Digital Governance. (Japanese)
- Murray, C. (2024, December 27). How we were deepfaked by election deepfakes. Financial Times.
- Heikkilä, M. (2024, September 18). AI-generated content doesn’t seem to have swayed recent European elections. MIT Technology Review.
- *Simon, F. M., McBride, K., & Altay, S. (2024, September 6). Superwahljahr: Warum der Einfluss von KI nicht unser größtes Problem ist. t3n.
- *Simon, F. M., McBride, K., & Altay, S. (2024, September 3). AI’s impact on elections is being overblown. MIT Technology Review. (Wayback Machine)
- Ball, J. (2024, June 12). Fifteen ideas for a better Britain. The New European.