In the 2024 U.S. election study, AI advocacy shifted candidate preference by 2.879 points on a 0–100 scale in the preregistered specification; post-hoc stated vote-choice effects were a few percentage points.

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Claim LD10-HQ-C04 (v1.0)

Provenance and status

Claim type: Estimate
Publication status: Eligible for publication, with a qualifier
Verification state: Checked against the primary source; the check used its supplementary information (recorded as “CONTENT VERIFIED FROM PRIMARY SI”). Who checked this claim is not recorded for it; claim checks so far were AI-led, and no person has checked claims against their sources.
Does not license: Election-result effect, validated voting behaviour or turnout
Limitations: Self-report; experimental exposure; model-role details arm-specific
Source (as cited): Lin et al., Nature 2025 + Supplementary Information
Source type: Peer-reviewed journal article (recorded as “Peer-reviewed article”)
Institutional position: Independent academic
Maturity of the evidence: Rapidly maturing evidence
Recorded date: 25 September 2026
Currentness / correction: This is the current version. No correction or concern is recorded on its sources.

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Lin et al., Nature 2025 + Supplementary Information (Peer-reviewed journal article)
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Claim type (coded): ESTIMATE (as printed: “ESTIMATE”)
Publication status (coded): ELIGIBLE (QUALIFIED) (as printed: “ELIGIBLE WITH QUALIFIER”)
Verification state (coded): CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY (PRIMARY_SI)
Source type (coded): PEER_REVIEWED_JOURNAL_ARTICLE
Maturity (coded): RAPIDLY_MATURING

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1	CLAIM ID	LD10-HQ-C04	—
2	PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM	In the 2024 U.S. election study, AI advocacy shifted candidate preference by 2.879 points on a 0–100 scale in the preregistered specification; post-hoc stated vote-choice effects were a few percentage points.	—
3	CLAIM TYPE	ESTIMATE	base_types: ESTIMATE
4	RESEARCH STRAND	A — Controlled persuasion	—
5	MATURITY	RAPIDLY MATURING	states: RAPIDLY_MATURING
6	SOURCE	Lin et al., Nature 2025 + Supplementary Information	source_ids: SRC-LD10-LIN-NATURE-2025-AND-SI
7	SOURCE TYPE	Peer-reviewed article	classes: PEER_REVIEWED_JOURNAL_ARTICLE
8	INSTITUTIONAL POSITION	Independent academic	—
9	SCOPE	U.S. adults; 2024 election; opt-in AI dialogue	—
10	DESIGN	Preregistered RCT	—
11	SAMPLE / DATASET	Pro-Harris n=1,255; pro-Trump n=1,202	—
12	MODEL / TOOL / VERSION	Perplexity + GPT-4o multi-agent setup documented in SI	—
13	COMPARATOR	Opposite-direction treatment / baseline	—
14	MAIN RESULT	Candidate-preference coefficient 2.879 [2.019,3.740]; post-hoc vote-choice ~+3.06pp Harris and +2.22pp Trump	—
15	INFERENTIAL TARGET	Immediate stated candidate preference under experimental exposure	—
16	DOES NOT LICENSE	Election-result effect, validated voting behaviour or turnout	—
17	VERIFICATION STATE	CONTENT VERIFIED FROM PRIMARY SI	state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY · qualifiers: PRIMARY_SI · verified_by: UNKNOWN
18	LIMITATIONS	Self-report; experimental exposure; model-role details arm-specific	—
19	CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES	Canada/Poland show larger effects; Chen shows exposure bottleneck	—
20	GEOGRAPHY / LANGUAGE	US / English	—
21	DISTRIBUTIONAL LEDGER	Effects varied by baseline attitude; no population incidence established	—
22	R01 / FIELD-MAP LINKS	D7, L-B, R-1	—
23	WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS CLAIM?	Field validation or revised primary analysis	—
24	PUBLICATION STATUS	ELIGIBLE WITH QUALIFIER	state: ELIGIBLE · qualifiers: QUALIFIED
25	RECORDED DATE	2026-09-25	—

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“Lin et al., Nature 2025 + Supplementary Information” → Lin et al., Nature 2025 + Supplementary Information (SRC-LD10-LIN-NATURE-2025-AND-SI--v1.0) — Lin et al., Nature 2025 + Supplementary Information; class PEER_REVIEWED_JOURNAL_ARTICLE (explicit public provenance pin)

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SocioLens project. (2026, September 25). In the 2024 U.S. election study, AI advocacy shifted candidate preference by 2.879 points on a 0–100 scale in the preregistered specification; post-hoc stated vote-choice effects were a few percentage points [Claim LD10-HQ-C04, version v1.0]. SocioLens. https://sociolens-web.pages.dev/claims/ld10-hq-c04/v1.0/

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