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Is there any sort of penalty journalists / publishers face for publishing false or speculative statements as facts besides public disapproval? Like a board of journalism or something like that.

If not, what keeps them from being incentivized to stretch the truth as much as they can get away with?

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Makes sense. It’s a slippery slope. There needs to be a better solution

I think Canada and England have strong laws about this afaik but it’s hard to enforce too many edge cases etc

As someone who has opened the New York Times even once, the answer is mostly absolutely not.

There is no penalty, otherwise, the entirety of mainstream media on both sides of the aisle would be penalized.