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Comment by AndrewKemendo | Hacker News Reader

Critically though, a correction is at #1 top spot today. That's about as good as it gets.

Corrections in newspapers don't run the same as headlines, nobody upvotes corrections to reddit or Instagram etc...

I'd suggest that as far as iterating in the direction of finding the truth, this is a best in class example of how to do it.

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And in less than 18 hours. Wish all fake news were debunked so quickly and thoroughly and prominently everywhere.

In this one example. How might one know how many cases were not realized in HN's history?

Maybe a tag in the original title could also help? Something like: "[FAKENEWS] When a customer refunds your paid app, Apple doesn’t refund the 30% cut"

People not reading the comments will then have a way of knowing this is false information.

Terrible tag idea, it's implicitly negative and accusatory. In this instance, the guy was apparently just honestly misinformed.

The main problem is that most of the original thread ballooned with upvotes because it became general "<big corporate entity> is bad" kvetching which is perennially popular and probably doesn't belong on HN at all. As long as these kinds of threads aren't modkilled, these things will happen, you just have to deal with it. Tagging them won't solve anything.

Technically, it is not known what the consequences of an untried action might be. There are many possibilities, that vary according to differing circumstances.

A current front page article - "Anti-climate action statements get more visibility in news coverage, study finds" is [FAKENEWS]

You want to fight that battle?

The article is not fakenews. It covers a research about anti-climate statements. Those can be fakenews (though depends on the nature of the statement I would say).

I'd like to keep this meta if possible.

When you wrote this comment had you read the journal article to see if the Press Release and Press Release Title linked on HN accurately represents the published journal article?

It's already gone from the top.

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