After participants completed the writing section and had reported their emotional state, they had to read a fabricated news article about the topic they were assigned to write about initially. Participants were given a news article that

• was considered "misinformation only", meaning it contained four untrue claims that remained uncorrected
• the same four false claims that were eventually corrected with information that explained how each of the four claims were untrue.

After reading the article, participants then had to report their perceived truthfulness of the claims.