How Topic Novelty Impacts the Effectiveness of News Veracity Interventions

As previously mentioned, we employed a 2x2 design, in which we studied two news conditions (familiar news and novel news) and two AI conditions (No AI and AI Intervention). The familiar news condition contained news articles on vaccination and climate change, both of which had been widely reported prior to this study, while the novel news condition contained news articles on COVID-19. The No AI condition provided just the article, while the AI Intervention condition displayed one of two statements at the top of the article: either "Our smart AI system rates this article as accurate and reliable" or "Our smart AI system rates this article as inaccurate and unreliable." Each participant read one randomly chosen article and answered two questions: 1. Do you believe the information in this news article?