It looks like the ex-DDG employee got the details wrong, and read the slides backwards.

  • CaptObvious@literature.cafe
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    1 year ago

    Short of visiting their newsroom and asking to see the documents in question, which no self-respecting journalist would share, we’ll have to trust them.

    However, having directed a newsroom in a previous life, I can tell you that a retraction is the last thing any editor wants to do. A minor error would be chalked up to working under a deadline and corrected in the next follow-up. A major error would get a stand-alone correction. The error has to be egregious to get a retraction.

    Libel might be a threat, but it’s devilishly difficult to prove that a news outlet has libeled a corporation. So long as the story were factually accurate, there’s nothing Google could plausibly threaten that would prompt a retraction.