Interestingly enough, in Germany you are forced to use the same page and layout, leading to sometimes very visible retractions...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/9/9c/Bild_Gegendar...

If you ask me, that‘s a good thing. If the stakes of an ad campaign with fake news or hate speech would be having to run a disproval campaign of the same size, on the same audience (if you are proven wrong) — I‘d be fine with it. Political ads weren‘t the problem. A complete and utter lack of regulation for the medium was.

Or you know, keep the lie because "publicly apologize for using the inaccurate “Polish Death Camps” phrase does not apply in Germany as it would curb freedom of speech." https://polandin.com/38606816/apology-for-polish-death-camps...

Hey, count me in for solving this one gracefully!

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...

This is German copycat of Onion you linked :)

I wonder what happened if the apology had to be as prominent as the false fact. Imagine a newspaper saying "WE LIED YESTERDAY" on the front-page :D

Oh wow we could have avoided the entire Iraq war!

Sounds like insurance companies with fine prints.