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by defrost 674 days ago
To clarify then,

The Guardian and many other newspapers of record admit their mistakes and publish corrections despite your claim that they do not.

Got it.

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They sometimes do, but they publish it in a place where no one reads it, perhaps by design. They could publish it to the front page, especially if the original article was front-page.

Elon has also admitted many mistakes in the past especially around tweets. You can find these easily if you listen to all his podcasts and appearances but again most people don't and the corrections gets far fewer views than the original spicy take.

It's more similar than you want to admit.

It's called media literacy. If you don't know where publications publish their corrections, then that's on you.
Media literacy sounds about as useful as a phd in astrology