> The feature builds on Google’s recent efforts to help users with “search literacy,” or to better understand context about what they’re looking up. > The new

> The feature builds on Google’s recent efforts to help users with “search literacy,” or to better understand context about what they’re looking up. > The new prompt is also part of a larger trend by major tech companies to give people more context about new information that could turn out to be be wrong. I appreciate the effort, especially given the far greater speed with which BS is concocted and spread. Research, whether in journalism or science, is inherently slow, since there's a process to try to arrive at the truth, so the truth is often a high latency signal. Specifically, this sounds like it's part of an effort to reduce anchoring bias [0] in users. Is there any research showing that this kind of approach is effective to help readers maintain an open mind? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring_(cognitive_bias) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring_(cognitive_bias)