Corrections

Every correction we have issued.

Errors are corrected in public, on the piece and on this page, with the original mistake described. We do not edit errors away silently.

The policy

When we get something wrong, the correction appears at the top of the affected piece, dated, describing what was originally published and what is now correct. The piece is not quietly amended: a reader returning to it can see that it changed and why.

Every correction is also listed on this page, in full, permanently. Entries are never removed or reworded after publication.

Where an error is serious enough that the original piece cannot stand - a claim that should never have been made, rather than a detail that was wrong - the piece is retracted rather than corrected, and the retraction is recorded here with the same permanence.

Requesting a correction

Anyone can request one, and you do not need to be the subject of the piece. Send the article, the specific passage, and what you believe the correct position is - with a source if you have one - to our contact address. Correction requests are answered before any other correspondence.

If you are the subject of a piece and disagree with its characterisation rather than its facts, say so: we will record your response and, where it is warranted, publish it.

The archive

The recovered 2021–2022 archive is a separate matter. Those pieces were written by the site’s previous operator, are republished unedited with their capture provenance, and are not corrected - amending them would misrepresent what was actually published at the time. If an archived piece contains something seriously wrong or harmful, tell us and we will consider removing it entirely rather than silently rewriting the record.

The log12 corrections

2026-09-03NASA Artemis dust hardware and the 2028 scheduleIdentified the speaker of quoted schedule remarks as NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman. The quotes are verbatim in the captured source; the capture does not carry the speaker identification.Corrected 2026-09-03FDA inspection reorganization and the GAO retention recordNamed Elizabeth Miller and Lowell Zeta as authors of the quoted FDA Voices post. The captured RAPS text carries neither name, and the FDA page did not return for the article.Corrected 2026-09-03WHO Ebola death count and the $1.4 billion requestAttributed a quoted line to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. The quote is verbatim in the captured WHO release; the capture does not carry the speaker identification.Corrected 2026-09-03China, Cuba and the UN embargo vote recordStated that the Chinese Foreign Ministry transcript attributed the quoted remarks to spokesperson Lin Jian. The captured transcript names no spokesperson. The sentence has been corrected.Corrected 2026-09-03NASA community college courseware and the FY2027 science cutIdentified the official quoted from a House Science Committee hearing as NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman. The captured account does not carry the speaker identification.Corrected 2026-09-03Teamsters, Paramount and the Warner merger delayNamed Paramount general counsel Makan Delrahim as the speaker of reported remarks. The captured text does not carry that name.Corrected 2026-09-03Kremlin sanctions-legality campaign and the UN recordAttributed a statement on the Russian Permanent Mission website to Deputy Permanent Representative Dmitry Chumakov. The captured page does not carry that attribution, in either script.Corrected 2026-09-04Colorado wildfire grant programme repealPublished under the entertainment desk byline. It is a disasters story; the byline is now the emergencies desk. The entertainment voice was the one applied at drafting, so this was a pipeline routing error, not a mistake about accountability.Corrected 2026-09-04NOAA Atlantic hurricane outlookPublished under the entertainment desk byline. It is a disasters story; the byline is now the emergencies desk. The entertainment voice was the one applied at drafting, so this was a pipeline routing error, not a mistake about accountability.Corrected 2026-09-04Our description of how a piece gets publishedFrom launch until 4 September 2026, /transparency said the fourth stage of the pipeline was human and that "nothing publishes without it", and /about said every piece is reviewed and approved by the editor of record before it runs. There was no such gate in the code: the automation wrote its own publish request, and 96 of the 156 pieces then live had gone out with no per-draft human step. The gate now exists and the approval is recorded on each piece; earlier pieces carry no approval record and none has been added retrospectively.Corrected 2026-09-04Ukraine ballistic missile figuresHeadlined as "198 ballistic missiles in July and no documented 200-missile attack", pairing a monthly ballistic total with a forecast for a single attack as though they were comparable. The piece's own analysis says the two numbers answer different questions. Headline changed; text unaltered.Corrected 2026-09-05Paramount 30-film floor offerHeadlined as an offer to AMC and Regal, with both named in the body. No captured source names any chain - the reporting says only that the offer went to cinema chains. The names were supplied from outside the record; the checker flagged it pre-publication and the piece was published past the objection. Headline and body corrected.Corrected

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