- Continue studying voice-based security warnings by studying other tools like Alexa
- Changing the ways Alexa conveys the warnings can also yield insight into what most effectively grabs user attention 
- Changing the voice to mimic that of a famous politician to see if the warnings would then be more influential  

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- Overall, when participants heard warning covers spoken by Alexa, they seemed to pick up on that because they saw Alexa as an impartial third-party who was simply conveying the truth, and hence this effort was effective in informing users of misinformation
- As for political affiliations, Independents had a greater chance of being skeptical about the warnings repeated by Alexa, whereas Democrats and Republicans generally believed what they heard from Alexa as long as it matched their beliefs 
- When Alexa informs participants of a warning tag before repeated the tweet content, participants were more likely to believe in the misinformation, regardless of whether the tweet content contains misinformation or not 

Two Truths and a Lie: Exploring Soft Moderation of COVID-19 Misinformation with Amazon Alexa - Discussion

Gover, D., & Sharevski, F. (2021). Two Truths and a Lie: Exploring Soft Moderation of COVID-19 Misinformation with Amazon Alexa. arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.04077. https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.04077?context=cs.CR

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