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> Correction: As per well-sourced Wikipedia article[3], this was not the `mega.nz` leak, this was another subsequent one.

Is it too humiliating to write, "Oops, sorry, I just realized that this was not the `mega.nz` leak, but a subsequent one"?

Why do people like to switch to passive third-person voice to avoid admitting the tiniest little error? I see this a lot with lawyers. It doesn't really fool anyone and makes the little mistake look worse.

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The entire comment is written in third-person. The correction is simply following the same pattern as the original text. I really don't think the author was trying to avoid any blame on the mistake. This is maybe reading a little too deeply into it.

That "Oops, sorry, I just realized" is all implied by that "Correction:". It's more pithy like that.

Your parent is not saying "mistake was made", "I was led to believe" or what not, which would be passive third-person voice, sneakily trying to shift the blame. Instead, the fact that a mistake was made is clearly communicated through an additional corrective edit. Seems appropriate for a correction of such minor point.

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