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This is something you don’t see a lot in journalism nowadays. Multiple publications have been caught in multiple provable lies or inaccuracies over the last few years, and this is the first official retraction I’ve seen. I tip my hat to the ars team.

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There are official retractions in reputable publications almost every day. Lots of major publications have an entire section of their website devoted to it:

https://www.nytimes.com/section/corrections

https://www.wsj.com/news/types/corrections

etc etc. Many of them include the retraction or correction in the following print edition, if they have one, as well.

Exactly. And they don’t just rip down the old article but annotate it with a disclaimer that an earlier version said XXX

... This is the first official retraction you've seen? Eh? All proper newspapers do them fairly regularly.

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