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But are they really held accountable? If they were they would stop doing it. A slap on the wrist fine that is filed under "cost of doing business" in their P&L

• kuschku 10y ago
  They are held responsible in the same way as the news websites will be - if they remove the article fast enough, and publish an article that's equally visible retracting their previous statement, within of 24h, there won't be any punishment.
• internaut 10y ago
  News organizations could post a bond on each article. Then they could lose money if they lie. For the main context of a story, for factual inaccuracies, for spelling mistakes, it could be contextual with different types of bonds. The question is how to verify, since these 'fact-checker' websites are a 'who guards the guards' problem.