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One statement, bounded on purpose

The headline is a single claim that a named source supports. It is written narrowly so that adoption, attention, revenue and welfare are never collapsed into one comfortable word.

The three sections below the fold

What this does not establish is the boundary of the evidence. Counterevidence & uncertainty is what argues the other way. What would change the reading is the observation that would move it. A record missing any of the three is incomplete, not merely brief.

Primary routes are checkable

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MWITA-CPCO-2026-009 · Evidence A · P1

Prompting participants to rate the accuracy of one unrelated headline before evaluating COVID-19 headlines nearly tripled truth discernment in subsequent sharing intentions compared with control.

What this does not establish

The result does not establish correction of false beliefs, trust restoration, behavior after exposure to official debunks, or effectiveness against every rumor format and language.

Counterevidence & uncertainty

Participants could distinguish truth better when explicitly judging accuracy than when deciding what to share, implying attention—not simply inability to recognize falsehood—contributed to indiscriminate sharing.

What would change the reading

Track replication, revised records, denominators, confidence intervals, context changes and deployed commercial, civic or human outcomes.

Primary routes

  1. CPCO-S009https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797620939054Open source record →

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