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

  • Researchers studied how Twitter users’ perceptions would change as a result of spoken soft moderation through Amazon Alexa because people generally do not question Alexa’s knowledge
  • Alexa has this function where it can distort information and tell you something that is completely different than the intended truth as a way to mislead users. The original intent of this skill was to provide two different perspectives on government regulations.
  • The study seeks to understand whether Alexa’s skills can also be used to reduce and diverge user attention from misinformation through the execution of 3 situations – Alexa informs users of the warning label and repeats the misinformation tweet after; Alexa first repeats the misinformation tweet then reads the warning label; Alexa does not say anything about the warning label and simply reads the tweet containing misinformation to the user

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Updated 2021-05-16

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