Are you crazy? Almost nobody sees or reads corrections. They're usually in small print to some side, where they reluctantly might retract something.
At least on social media if the correction is big enough it'll be brought to people's attention.
Have you really never seen a correction posted on reddit? Every other day there's some news article that has as the first comment a correction of the article, because the article is wrong or leaving something out.
> At least on social media if the correction is big enough it'll be brought to people's attention.
And if it's not, it wasn't big enough, or if it was big, but people didn't like it enough because it doesn't suit them, then it still doesn't get spread. Doesn't make it less of a correction though, does it? If you apply something super vague as "big enough" to one, apply it to the other as well.
> Have you really never seen a correction posted on reddit?
Same here: have you really never seen a correction in a newspaper? Or letters by readers taking issue with previous articles, for that matter?
> Every other day there's some news article that has as the first comment a correction of the article, because the article is wrong or leaving something out.
That says nothing without looking at the volume of falsehoods that are uncontested, or at the instances where the article is correct, and then the comments contain falsehoods about the subject.
At least on social media if the correction is big enough it'll be brought to people's attention.
Have you really never seen a correction posted on reddit? Every other day there's some news article that has as the first comment a correction of the article, because the article is wrong or leaving something out.