Corrections

Message us through the site's internal messaging, or the contact channels listed in the Legal Notice. Tell us which piece it is, which exact sentence is wrong and, if you have it, where the correct information is.

You do not need to be right: we would rather review ten mistaken reports than miss one good one.

We also correct on our own initiative, when we spot the error ourselves or when the original source issues a correction.

We fix the text and leave a record. The site stores the previous state of every edited piece, along with who edited it and when; that history cannot be wiped from the admin panel.

When the error changes the meaning of what was published, the correction is explained in the piece itself, not only in the history. Silently rewriting a sentence that said the opposite is rewriting the past.

When the label is what failed rather than the text, we change the seal: a piece marked Report that turns out to be false becomes Debunked and stays at its URL.

We do not delete a piece to hide an error. Deleting it puts it out of reach of exactly the people who read the wrong version.

We do not silently correct a substantive fact. Typos and spelling, yes, without ceremony; facts, no.

We do not withdraw a correction because it is inconvenient.

If we rename a piece's address, the old one keeps working and permanently redirects to the new one. A link someone shared should not die because we improved a headline.

Updating a guide with new information is not correcting, it is maintaining. Every guide publishes the date of its last editorial review.

A rumour we reported as a rumour failing to come true is not our error, as long as it was labelled a rumour. Even so, when the outcome is known, we report it.