ABSTRACT : We conducted two experiments to study people's prior expectations and actual perceptions of automated and human - written news. We found that first, participants expected more from human - written news in terms of readability and quality; but not in terms of credibility. Second, participants' expectations of quality were rarely met. Third, when participant saw only one article, differences in the perception of automated and human--written articles were small. However, when presented with two articles at once, participants preffered human-written news foe readability but automated news foe credibility. These results contest previous claims according to which expectation adjustment explains differences in perceptions of human-written and automated news.