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[–] teft@piefed.social 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The retraction, as always, will be ignored and shown to as few people as possible. That way these disingenuous fucks can say “bbbbut the health secretary said…”.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

They've been doing this for the last decade.

Step 1: Do something outrageous and horrible that hurts many people.

Step 2: Profit.

Step 3: Publish some kind of very timid, mild, barely visible retraction or admission somewhere that nobody will ever see or care about, knowing full well we live in an attention-span economy and you can literally buy whatever levels of visibility or invisibility as you want from media outlets.