Press Gazette: PR industry alarmed at rise of fake commenters exposed by Press Gazette. “Press Gazette’s investigation into fake experts being widely quoted in the national press has prompted a huge reaction from the PR industry. Meanwhile various publishers are understood to be reviewing content and policies in the wake of the story, and the BBC has removed one article altogether from its […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/10/press-gazette-pr-industry-alarmed-at-rise-of-fake-commenters-exposed-by-press-gazette/

PressGazette: Virtual reality: The widely-quoted media experts who are not what they seem. “Since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, anyone can generate comment, on any subject, in an instant. It is a technology that appears to have fuelled a rise in expert commentators who have appeared widely in national newspapers but who are either not real, not what they seem to be or at the very least have […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/08/virtual-reality-the-widely-quoted-media-experts-who-are-not-what-they-seem-pressgazette/