NPR Retracts Story 'The Man Who Spent $100K To Remove A Lie From Google'

Re:NPR Retracts Story 'The Man Who Spent $100K To Remove A L... by gowld on Friday April 27, 2018 @01:43PM (#16942672)

Generally where? I went to check if that was the case for scientific journal, and I was shocked to see how easy it is to see full-text of a retracted article. There are "RETRACTED" tags scattered about, but it's still easy to grab a page of bad text. I'd expect the whole document to have some sort of marking on every horizontal line or as a watermark.

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms6446

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Re:NPR Retracts Story 'The Man Who Spent $100K To Remove A L... by ocdtrekkie on Friday April 27, 2018 @02:02PM (#16942837)

Usually on the average news blog I've seen retractions in the form of "we didn't realize this author was paid by x and it doesn't meet our standards of integrity" notices, followed by "original article below".

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Re:NPR Retracts Story 'The Man Who Spent $100K To Remove A L... by danso on Friday April 27, 2018 @02:09PM (#16942884)

Do you have any examples? A "retraction" is not just a synonym for "massive correction". It literally means to withdraw something.

Some recent notable examples of retractions; in all cases, the story was completely pulled:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/26/business/3-cnn-journalist...

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/05/23/statement-on-cove...

http://www.newsweek.com/alt-right-trump-franken-mueller-twit...

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Re:NPR Retracts Story 'The Man Who Spent $100K To Remove A L... by jessriedel on Friday April 27, 2018 @05:47PM (#16944675)

This is indeed common practice in journalism (but not science) when retracting a story, but it's not synonymous with "retraction". Indeed, daily newspapers before the internet often "retracted" stories when they clearly couldn't change how many copies were available. This is why the term "unpublish" has been introduced in the age of the internet.

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Re:NPR Retracts Story 'The Man Who Spent $100K To Remove A L... by jessriedel on Friday April 27, 2018 @05:48PM (#16944692)

> I'd expect the whole document to have some sort of marking on every horizontal line or as a watermark.

Why? Do you think anyone is at risk of not noticing the huge warnings on each page? What is the point of erasing the text?

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