April 17, 2025 Zeynep Tufekci, spoke at the “Addressing the Impact of Social Media and AI on Democracy” symposium at the University of Mississippi and her talk was featured in The Daily Mississippian. “One of the things that AI brings to the public sphere is the difficulties of figuring out what’s authentic versus what’s not. Journalists by acting as gatekeepers help the audience, the readers and the public differentiate between what is real versus what is just an unsubstantiated claim. Journalists can play a major role in helping us adjust to all the changes that AI may bring to how we consume information,” Tufekci said. Read the full article here.