Corrections policy

Write to the standards editor via the contact page with the article, the specific passage, and what you believe the correct information is. If you can point to a document — a filing, a statement, a data release — include it. Requests with a source attached are resolved considerably faster than requests without one.

Requests are logged when received. You will get a reply either way, including when we conclude the original was right.

Correction. A factual error: a wrong number, name, date, or a statement the sources do not support. The article is fixed and carries a note saying what changed.

Clarification. The article was accurate but open to being read the wrong way. The wording is tightened and a note explains the change.

Update. New developments, or a response that arrived after publication. Added to the article with the update time shown.

Retraction. Reserved for articles whose central claim does not hold. The article stays at its URL with a prominent retraction notice rather than disappearing, because removing it would break inbound links and hide the record.

Corrections are appended to the article itself, not filed somewhere out of the way. The article's modified timestamp updates, and that revised date is what appears in our structured data and sitemap.

We do not silently rewrite published copy. If a substantive fact changes after publication, the change is visible on the page. The one exception is a pre-publication typo caught within minutes, which is fixed without a note.

No corrections have been issued. When the first one is, it will be listed here with the date, the article and what changed, so the record is auditable in one place rather than scattered across articles.

Labelled commercial articles are corrected on the same terms as editorial ones. A sponsor cannot have an accurate statement removed, and cannot decline a correction to an inaccurate one. If a sponsor's claim turns out to be false, the correction runs whether or not the relationship continues. See the disclosure policy.