TV Appearances
Interview entitled “La minaccia della disinformazione” (in Italian; Eng transl. “The threat of disinformation”) a “Il Faro, Telegiornale RSI La1”, 4 October 2025. Watch the full version: Link. A short excerpt is included below:
“L’IA ci dà risposte allineate con il nostro modo di vedere il mondo” (in Italian; Eng transl. “AI gives us answers aligned with our worldviews”: “- TV interview for RSI Info, Il Quotidiano, 3 October 2025. Full video: Link. A short excerpt is included below:
Podcasts and Radio Interviews
“SEIDISERA: Berna vuole lottare contro le fake news”. RSI Rete Uno. 28 November 2025. Link.
“Combating the infodemic in Switzerland”. Podcast interview with Polish Radio (Polskie Radio). Host: Marcin Matuszewski. 30 December 2024. Link.
AI Pharma Insight: Ottimizzazione del social listening per la comunicazione e ethical AI” (in Italian. English transl. “Social listening optimization for communication and ethical AI”) with Federico Germani. AI Play. 8 November 2024. Link.
“Federico Germani: Come far disinformare l’AI” (in Italian, English transl. “Federico Germani: How to disinform with AI”), Podcast discussion on Samuel Algherini’s “AI: La Nuova Era”, 30 April 2024. Link.
“Ringing the Alarm Bell with Federico Germani”, Podcast discussion on Andy Busam’s “Mediated World”, 6 August 2023. Link.
“KI-generierten Inhalten wird eher geglaubt” (in German, English trad. “AI-generated content is more likely to be believed”), Interview/discussion on “Deutschlandfunk”, 30 June 2023. Link.
“The anti-vaccination movement on social media”, Culturico Podcast, April 2021. Link.
Public Talks and Conferences
NRP80 Final Conference. Talk: “The fragility of Moral Key Terms: Contradictions in Adolescents’ Public Health Crisis Moral Reasoning”, shared with Dr Giovanni Spitale. Bern, Switzerland, 6 March 2026.
Seminar: “AI Ethics and Infodemics: Building Resilience Against Misinformation”. Zurich University of Applied Sciences / ZHAW, Winterthur, Switzerland, 15 October 2025.
Premio Möbius Multimedia Lugano 2025. Talk: “Intelligenza artificiale, disinformazione e giovani: ponte o minaccia per la democrazia? (in Italian, English transl. “AI, disinformation and youth: bridge or threat for democracy?”). 3 October 2025, Lugano, Switzerland. Link.
Scientific Coordinator. EACME Conference 2025 Zurich, Switzerland. Link.
“Oltre l’oggettività: scienza, dati e potere” (Engl. Transl. “Beyond objectivity: science, data, and power”), Panel discussion. Ci Penso! Festival. 25 August, 2025; L’Aquila, Italy.
Talk: “Disinformation and ethics in the age of Large Language Models”; online seminar organized by the Institute for Data Science & Artificial Intelligence, 19 June, 2025; Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey. Link.
Symposium in “Digital Bioethics: Methods, Applications, and Ethical Perspectives”. Talk: “Large Language Models’ impact on the disinformation ecosystem”, shared with Dr Giovanni Spitale. 7-9 August 2024, Xplanatorium Schloss Herrenhausen, Hannover, Germany.
World Congress of Bioethics (WCB) 2024, Hamad Bin Khalifa University: “Religion, Culture, and Global Bioethics”, 3-6 June 2024, Doha, Qatar. Talk 1: “Navigating the Ethical Challenges of Infodemic Management: Insights from the WHO Expert Group”, part of the sesssion entitled “Navigating the Ethical Challenges of Infodemic Management: Insights from the WHO Expert Group”, shared with Dr Andreas Reis, Dr Giovanni Spitale, and Sandra Varaidzo Machiri.
World Congress of Bioethics (WCB) 2024, Hamad Bin Khalifa University: “Religion, Culture, and Global Bioethics”, 3-6 June 2024, Doha, Qatar. Talk 2: “AI’s Double-Edged Sword: Impact on Information Quality, Infodemics, and Public Health”, shared with Dr Giovanni Spitale.
EACME 2023, Center for Bioethics and Biolaw, University of Warsaw: “Facing disruption. Challenges to bioethics, human rights and democracy”, 14-16 September 2023. Talk: “AI model GPT-3 (dis)informs us better than humans“, 15 September, 2023. Warsaw, Poland.
The University of Hong Kong, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law – Conference: “Governance of Social Listening in the context of Serious Health Threats”, 22-24 August 2023. Talk “Ethical Implications of Infodemic Management and Social Listening: A Scoping Review”, 22 August, 2023. Hong Kong, Hong Kong (China).
SNF Corona Conference 2023. Talk “Boosting Public Discourse”, 21 March, 2023. Thun, Switzerland.
Open Innovation Life Science (OILS) Conference 2022. Talk “Disinformation, cancellation, and open science”, 28 October, 2022. Zurich, Switzerland (online).
GESDA Science and Diplomacy Week. Talk “Info-wars: on the ethics of crisis communication” with Giovanni Spitale and Nikola Biller-Andorno, 18 May, 2022. Maison de la Paix, Geneva, Switzerland.
Discussion panel (in Italian): “Disinformazione e teorie del complotto: riflessioni politiche e sociali” (transl. “Disinformation and conspiracy theories: political and social reflections”. 9 April, 2022. Assago (Milan), Italy. Organized by Azione /organizzato dal partito politico Azione.
31st ECCMID: European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. 9-12 July, 2021. Talk: “The anti-vaccine infodemic on social media” (online)
Global Virtual Conference in Bioethics and the Coronavirus Pandemic. 10-11 March, 2021. Talk: “The anti-vaccine infodemic on social media” (online)
PhD defense, Talk: “Innate Immunity’s Multiple Affairs in Cell Growth Regulation”. 4 October, 2019. Zurich, Switzerland.
MSc thesis defense. Talk: “WNK Kinase: The possible missing link between ion homeostasis and cell growth”. October, 2015. Milan, Italy.
A Selection of Media Articles
Germani F. and Spitale G. “Who Gets to Persuade with AI? The Ethics Storm That Missed the Point”. LinkedIn article. 27 October 2025. Link.
Germani F. and Spitale G. “BlueSky: Why we don’t need another echo chamber social media platform”, Culturico. March 2025. Link.
Germani F. “ChatGPT and the fight against disinformation: How AI is changing the game”, Culturico, March 2023. Link.
Holzer F, Germani F, Alcantara Ortiz I, März J, Biller-Andorno N, “A global vaccine tax to expand COVAX’s mandate”, Journal of Medical Ethics Blog, December 2022. Link.
Germani F. and Biller-Andorno N., “Dismantling Anti-vaccine Rhetoric on Social Media”. The Scientist. January 2022. Link.
Germani F. “Misinformation and the obesity pandemic”. Culturico. November 2021. Link.
Germani F. “How did the pandemic start? The fine line between truth and conspiracy”. ZME Science. March 2021. Link.
Germani F. “Science should stay away from cultural constructs and social revolutions”. ZME Science. January 2021. Link.
Germani F. “How to rebuild trust in science and expertise”. Research to Action. November 2020. Link.
Germani F. “The mental health of PhD students is at stake: scientific journals should take the blame”. ZME Science. October 2020. Link.
Germani F. “COVID-19 and men. The health risks of traditional masculine behaviour”. Eurozine. September 2020. Link.
Germani F. “We should act now to prevent future pandemics – the Black Plague may be next”. ZME Science June 2020. Link.
Germani F. “The need for a scientific revolution: an answer to Prof. Caroline Wagner”. Culturico. January 2020. Link.
Germani F. “Public Service Open Access (PSOA) is also not enough”. Culturico. January 2020. Link.
Germani F. “Small journals maintain the business of large journals – the scientific semiperiphery”. ZME Science. December 2019. Link.
Germani F. “Science should progress our knowledge, not improve our lives”. Cogito Collective. September 2019. Link.
Germani F. “The scientific publishing lobby: why science does not work”. Culturico. May 2019. Link.
Germani F. “How journals kill scientific Romanticism”. Culturico. December 2018. Link.
In Italian only. Germani F. “Il problema dell’Università italiana? Più che la mancanza di soldi è lo schiavismo accademico”. (transl. English: “The problem of the Italian University? More than the lack of money, it is academic slavery)”. Linkiesta. October 2015. Link.
What the Media Say
“Paper mills. For sale: scientific reputation” by Daniel Saraga for “Horizons. The Swiss Research Magazine.” 26 February 2026. Link.
“人間の偏見をAIが増幅？ 女性は職業経験短く、中国人の文章を低評価” (transl. in Engl. “Does AI Amplify Human Bias? Women Shown as Having Shorter Work Experience, Chinese Authors Rated Lower”), by Satoshi Kawahara for “Nikkei”. 15 February 2026. Link.
“Quand il s’agit d’évaluer des textes sur des sujets controversés, l’IA se fait piéger par ses préjugés” (in French; Eng. transl. “When it comes to evaluating texts on controversial topics, AI falls prey to its own biases”), by Denis Delbecq for “Le Temps”. 7 December 2025. Link.
“AI evaluates texts without bias–until source is revealed”. University of Zurich News. 10 November 2025. Link.
Interview entitled “La minaccia della disinformazione” (in Italian; Eng transl. “The threat of disinformation”) a “Il Faro, Telegiornale RSI La1”, 4 October 2025. Link.
“L’IA ci dà risposte allineate con il nostro modo di vedere il mondo” (in Italian; Eng transl. “AI gives us answers aligned with our worldviews”: “- TV interview for RSI Info, Il Quotidiano, 3 October 2025. Link.
“Ci Penso! l’anteprima del festival dei giovani per i giovani” (in Italian; transl. “Ci Penso! the preview of the youth festival for youth”). “Il Capoluogo”, 25 August 2025. Link.
“Ci Penso!, il festival pensiero critico debutta a L’Aquila” (in Italian; transl. “Ci penso! The critical thinking festival debuts in L’Aquila”). “Ansa”, 19 August 2025. Link
“The innate immune system: A double-edged sword” by Andersen DS and Colombani J. for “PLOS Biology”, 29 April 2025. Link.
“Turning the page after Covid-19 – not such a good idea” by Daniel Saraga for “DeFacto”, 3 February 2025. Link.
“Could AI Help Curb Conspiracy Theory Beliefs?” by Claudia López Lloreda for “Undark”, 30 October 2024. Link.
“A short history of AI in 10 landmark moments” by David Elliott, World Economic Forum, 3 October 2024. Link.
“AI chatbot shows promise in talking people out of conspiracy theories”, by Phie Jacobs for “Science”, 12 September 2024. Link.
“Artificial intelligence is making it hard to tell truth from fiction”, by Kathiann Kowalski for “Science News Explores”, 9 May 2024. Link.
“AI-Generated Fake News is Coming to an Election Near You”, by Sander Van Der Linden for “Wired”, 22 January 2024. Link.
“UZH in the Media: Top Ten Media Releases 2023” by Barbara Simpson for “UZH News”, 11 January 2024. Link.
“Can you spot the AI impostors? We found AI faces can look more real than actual humans” by Amy Dawel et al. for “The Conversation”, 13 November 2023. Link.
“Fake newsy stworzone przez sztuczną inteligencję trudne do rozpoznania. Wydają się internautom bardziej wiarygodne od wiadomości tworzonych przez ludzi” (interview in Polish, English transl. “Fake news created by artificial intelligence is difficult to recognize. They seem more credible to Internet users than news created by people”, by “Newseria Biznes” News”, 21 September 2023. Link.
“New study confirms GPT-3 can spread disinformation online faster, more convincingly than humans”, by Mitchell Consky for “CTV News”, 27 July 2023. Link.
“AI appears more human on social media than actual humans: study”, by Emma Colton for “Fox News”, 25 July 2023. Link.
“Artificial intelligence can seem more human than actual humans on social media, study finds”, by Eric W. Dolan for “PsyPost”, 22 July 2023. Link.
“בינה מלאכותית מאפשרת לזייף מידע ובני אדם, ומסכנת משטרים דמוקרטיים” (in Hebrew. English trad. “Artificial intelligence makes it possible to falsify information, trick people, and endanger democracy”, by Gidon Lev for “Haaretz”, 14 July 2023. Link.
“2 Reasons the AI Revolution Will Enhance Our Quality of Life”, by Ray Parker for “Psychology Today”, 10 July 2023. Link.
“Survey shows Anglophones unable to tell between AI and human tweets”, “The Star”, 2 July 2023. Link.
“Le passioni di chi parla italiano” (in Italian only. English transl. “The passions of those speaking Italian”), Interview by Kantonsschule Uetikon am See, Classe 6C, June 2023. Link.
“KI schreibt überzeugende Falschmeldungen” (in German. English trad. “AI writes convincing false information”), Raphael Krapscha for “Science ORF / Ö1-Wissenschaft”, 30 June 2023. Link.
“We’re more likely to fall for AI’s lies, study shows” Mark Sellman for “The Times”, 30 June 2023. Link.
“Vienen tiempos oscuros: los tuits generados mediante IA pueden ser mas convincientes que los de personas reales” (in Spanish. Trad. English “Dark times ahead: tweets generated with AI can be more convincing than those generated by real people”, David Freire for “La Vanguardia”, 30 June 2023. Link.
“AI tools better than people, says study”, “Swissinfo”, 29 June 2023. Link.
“People are more likely to believe AI-generated tweets than ones written by humans, study finds”, “Yahoo”, 29 June 2023. Link.
“ChatGPT engana major questions los humanos” (in Spanish. English Trad. “ChatGPT chats better than humans”), Adrian Cano for “Forbes Hispano”, 28 June 2023. Link.
“KI und desinformation: “Wir müssen schnell aufholen in der Bullshit-Erkennung”” (in German. English Trad. “AI and disinformation: we need to catch up quickly in bullshit detection”), Christian J. Meier for “Süddeutsche Zeitung”, 28 June 2023. Link.
“GPT-3 Informs and Disinforms Better”, “University of Zurich News”, 28 June 2023. Link. German version here: Link.
“Los tuits generados por una IA podrian ser mas convincientes que los de personas reales, segun estudio” (in Spanish, trad. English: “Tweets generated with AI are more convincing than those created by real people, according to a study”, “El Comercio”, 28 June 2023. Link.
“Humans may be more likely to believe disinformation generated by AI”, Rhiannon Williams for “MIT Technology Review”, 28 June 2023. Link.
“People believe GPT-3 created disinformation more readily than human-generated disinformation”, Chris Stokel-Walker for “Fast Company”, 28 June 2023. Link.
“AI-generated tweets might be more convincing than real people, research finds”, Justine Calma for “The Verge”, 28 June 2023. Link.
“ChatGPT mint mejor que los humanos” (in Spanish), Jordi Pérez Colomé for “El Pais”, 28 June 2023. Link. (English version: Link)
“Por que Trump agora defende vacinação contra covid?” (in Portuguese, trad. “Why is Trump now advocating for vaccines against COVID-19?”, Mariana Sanches for “BBC News Brasil”, 13 January 2022. Link.
“Motivaciones politicas en el ecosistema desinformativo” (in Spanish, trad. “Political motivations in the disinformation ecosystem”, Candela Rodríguez-Lamas for “La República”, 27 December 2021. Link.
“Arizona politicians crack door open for measles, other diseases”, Tim Steller for “Arizona Daily Star”, 3 October 2021. Link.
“Ein schlechter Tag für Impfgegner” (in German only, trad. “A bad day for anti-vaccine supporters”), Eike Kühl for “Die Zeit”, 1 September 2021. Link.
“Vaccine misinformation spreads to every kind of media”, Sara Fischer for “Axios”, 3 August 2021. Link.
“Data Show Far Right Media Could Be Fueling Growing Partisan Vaccination Gap”, Elijah Nouvelage for “Truthout”, 9 July 2021. Link.
“Study indicates Donald Trump was the main anti-vaccination influencer on Twitter in 2020”, Eric W. Dolan for “PsyPost”, 8 June 2021. Link.
“Pandemic gives a shot in the arm to anti-vaccine movement”, AFP for “The Japan Times”, 24 April 2021. Link.
“Pandemic a shot in the arm for anti-vaccine movement”, Marine Laouchez (AFP) for “Barron’s”, 24 April 2021. Link.
“For health workers, anti-vaccine mistrust fades away with higher pay”, Paul John Scott for “Duluth News Tribune”, 23 March 2021. Link.