The 'tech intervention' being touted here is "adding labels about the credibility of the source." But in one of those coincidences, just before reading this I read an article from Futurity titled Credibility labels don't do much to shift news diets. So how to work through this dilemma. The only way through is to read and think. From the Popular Science article: "for the majority of users, these labels didn't alter their online behaviors in measurable ways." OK, that confirms the Futurity report. But "it had a notable effect on the individuals who consumed the highest amount of low-quality news." So maybe the intervention is useful. My take is that there's no one way that will work for everyone. It depends a lot on what you need, and it depends a lot on what question you're trying to answer exactly.
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