Experiment: Mindful Rejection, and Respectful Followup

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Hypothesis

Asking readers to be thoughtful about what content they do and do not agree on a page with will allow the system to identify gaps of interpretation.

Respectfully following up on those gaps will give the reader an opportunity to reflect on the merit of their rejections.

Proposed intervention

Provide the reader with a way to provide sentence (or phrase) level indications of how they feel about a piece of information they've been exposed to. Follow up separately to go deeper into that information with the reader.

Concierge MVP

1. Select a controversial fact check or news article and ask readers to highlight things that trigger an emotional response / skepticism / gut acceptance.
2. Research the highlighted phrases and write a followup article for the reader.

Engineered MVP

1. UI intervention that will prompt users to highlight as they read
2. Collection of highlighted phrases are compiled for a user
3. Commonly highlighted phrases get a written-by-staff followup

Associated Research

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Comment today from this event -- also worth having folks mindfully accept / agree (not JUST reject)