FWIW, that never occurs.

EDIT: Although it is currently being mentioned on the front pages of NYT, WaPo, and WSJ.

Aw hell, for the past several years, they're just fine with editing their posts and hoping their error falls down the digital "memory hole."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_hole

Retractions are troublesome even if published prominently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias#backfire_eff...

Oh, it happened in Germany in 1983 when the media realized that Hitler's diaries were fake. But that was one media outlet, who had purchased all the rights of the fake diaries, against all others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Diaries

It's front page on the Washington Post right now.

I haven't been on HN regularly in years; is promotion by the HN and silicon valley dabblers-and-blowhards crowd the reason the drug (one of dozens being tried) become so talked about? Did Elon Musk spend an hour browsing the preprints and tweet it to the world or something? I'm confused

Trump promoted it in a press conference, which prompted world-wide interest. Elon Musk also promoted it https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1239650597906898947?s=20

Background:

* https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/health/trump-hydroxychlor... “ Trump Calls This Drug a ‘Game Changer.’ Doctors Aren’t So Sure: The malaria drug hydroxychloroquine has become a political litmus test. But doctors on the front lines of coronavirus say it’s just another tool in desperate times.”

* https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/25/us/coronavirus-trump-chlo... “ Prescriptions Surged as Trump Praised Drugs in Coronavirus Fight: Prescriptions for two antimalarial drugs jumped by 46 times the average when the president promoted them on TV. There’s no proof they work against Covid-19.”