For the second study, the researchers wanted to find out if a subtle nudge to consider accuracy would make participants consider accuracy when rating the likelihood of sharing a COVID-19 headline. In theory, this would increase the discernment between sharing true and false headlines. To test this, they split the participants into two groups: a control group and a treatment group. The control group followed the same methodology as study 1. The treatment group took a pretest, where they were asked to rate the accuracy of a headline that was unrelated to COVID-19. However, instead of splitting the subjects into an accuracy and sharing group, all participants were asked the same question for the headlines: “If you were to see the above on social media, how likely would you be to share it?” which they answered on a 6-point scale from 1 (extremely unlikely) to 6 (extremely likely).”