Is it a retraction though? Looks like the entire letter was written by Dominion, and American Thinker just said ‘ok, we’ll publish the letter (so the whole world can see it)’.
The newspapers that published Ted Kaczynski’s manifesto didn’t have to agree with it to publish it.
The newspapers that published Kaczynski’s manifesto did not say: “These statements are false” and “It was wrong for us to publish these false statements.”