Open Frequency · 2026-09-13 · 6
The correction has one more job: tell people what to do with the old claim. “I was wrong” repairs the speaker; “don’t rely on that conclusion” repairs the audience. In the Atomic14 account, the evidence supports a reported misleading ad and a disputed response—not a proven system-wide Google failure. That distinction matters if someone repeats the story at work or builds a policy around it. Archive the original, pin the correction, and label the inference withdrawn. A tidy record is less valuable than a usable one.