Corrections
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Every message reaches the data editor. When a summary contradicts the reports it cites, we correct or remove the summary. When an outlet or a category is wrong, we fix the record so that every page using it changes at the next recount: within 15 minutes for an event of the last three days, within a day for an older one. When a source asks us to remove a link to a withdrawn report, we remove it. We reply to the address you wrote from when the fix is made.
Corrections log
Corrections made to published pages, newest first, with the date, the page and what changed. Fixes to the method that changed many pages at once are listed with their scope.
| Date | What changed |
|---|---|
| Oct 12, 2026 | Events are now filed on the day of their first report rather than the day our pipeline published them (a market close of October 8 had been listed on October 9), and story pages date themselves the same way. Event pages that had no summary of ours, only an outlet's quoted headline, are now sections of their day, week or month brief, where the same headline, the facts of the coverage and every link appear; their addresses lead there. Names withheld as cookie-notice text answer that they have no page. |
| Oct 12, 2026 | A report's own title is no longer shown or quoted when it concerns an arrest, a charge, a trial, a sentence or a violent crime, or alleges, accuses or reports a probe, a lawsuit, a settlement or a scandal, whoever it names, in any form of the word (3,039 titles); those events keep the facts of their coverage and the links to every report. Organisations are no longer listed beside reports that carry an accusation. Eleven more events filed twice were merged. Five company names our extraction took from cookie-consent notices on unrelated pages (Quantcast among them) are no longer listed as named in news events, and one item built only from such notices is withdrawn. |
| Oct 12, 2026 | 160 more events that one story had been filed as twice were merged, judged on their current headlines (11,834 events now). Event pages that had neither a summary of ours nor an outlet headline that passed our screen (128, kept until now because they had search traffic) are now lines in their brief, where every outlet is linked; their addresses lead there. Lists of events (home, desks, weeks, categories, names) no longer show entries that say nothing. A drug maker's unattributed "first and only" and "prestigious" claims are removed from its page. |
| Oct 12, 2026 | A coverage record now shows the headline an outlet gave the event, quoted and attributed, when that headline passed our screen for accusations and private names (2,577 events); the others are listed briefly under "More events reported" at the end of their brief, with their outlets and links. A day or week has a brief of its own when it has four (a week five) events with a summary or headline (818 day briefs). Thirteen more events filed twice on different desks were merged; another stock-scan site (watchlistnews.com) is no longer counted or shown, and the 13 events built only from such sites are no longer served. A headline gave a spinoff's $6B valuation as the size of its share sale; a summary repeated a drug maker's unattributed "first" claim. Both are corrected. |
| Oct 12, 2026 | Repeated sentences and key facts removed (493 in 443 events). Agency copy filed under the world, national, business, politics, technology and health sections of seven local stations is now treated as agency copy. Three events named by our legal review were corrected: a headline that gave a Fed paper's shares of growth as growth rates now gives them as shares, and two events became coverage records. Event pages with no summary of ours that had not earned search traffic (152) are now sections of their day, week or month brief; their addresses lead there. Events built only from blocked machine-generated sites that are kept because they earned traffic now list their reports. |
| Oct 12, 2026 | Agency copy that our check still missed (a sign-off such as "— ASSOCIATED PRESS" mid-page, sites that strip the credit) is now found by those sign-offs and by site: every report from 57 sites where at least half of the stored reports are agency copy, or that run it without the credit, is treated as agency copy. The 729 events whose remaining text changed were read again (56 made coverage records, 3 headlines rewritten, 156 sentences and 265 key facts removed, 64 summaries written afresh); 230 more events whose only report text is agency copy show their headline and reports only, and the headlines of such events may now say only what their report titles say (50 written again from the titles, 241 made coverage records). Reports behind Google News are listed under the outlet Google names, and on day and week pages the full list of outlets opens under each event. The methodology states the agency check with its limits. |
| Oct 12, 2026 | Correction to the entry below: news-agency copy still reached summaries. Our check had read only the first 5,000 characters of each report, so a closing "Copyright The Associated Press" line went unseen, and some papers run agency stories with no credit line at all. The check now reads the whole text, the agency's own site, web addresses that file a piece under the agency, and copies of an agency piece (same headline, or shared text): 2,477 AP, 725 Bloomberg, 508 Reuters and 38 AFP reports are no longer used to check or write summaries. The 654 events whose remaining text changed were read again (123 made coverage records, 5 headlines rewritten, 420 sentences and 591 key facts removed, 95 summaries written afresh); 276 events whose only report text was agency copy now show their headline and reports with no summary or key facts. Sentences crediting an outlet not listed with the event were removed (116 sentences and 141 key facts in 171 events; 12 such headlines made coverage records). Four events named by our legal review became coverage records (an apparent murder-suicide stated as fact, a court order described as an affirmance, a headline reversing who sought what, and a summary naming markets its report did not cover), and two sentences were removed. The methodology now states the copying check as it runs. |
| Oct 12, 2026 | Every headline, summary sentence and key fact was read again against only the reports listed on its page (before, against every report gathered for the event): 516 events made coverage records, 97 headlines rewritten, 1,714 sentences and 2,863 key facts removed. Wire-agency copy (AP, Reuters, AFP, Bloomberg) carried by other sites is no longer used to check or write summaries. Sentences and facts that repeated ten or more words of a report were put in our own words (1,567) or removed (9,053), and 891 summaries left empty were written afresh and checked again. Report titles are shown only after a screen for accusations and private names, and never under a coverage record. An event whose headline a check rewrote has an address made from the new headline; the old address redirects. The security-incidents tracker names an organisation only when it or an authority confirms the breach. Outlet names no longer carry a newsroom desk. |
| Oct 12, 2026 | Methodology: new events are written by Xiaomi MiMo V2.6 Pro (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash when it fails) and filed by TypeSafe Jev (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash for the reports it is less sure of); the page names the models used before. |
| Oct 12, 2026 | Every headline was read again for numbers, ranges, offices, roles and certainty the reports do not give: 77 rewritten, 499 events made coverage records (among them a disclosed share trade whose range was given as one figure, an executive's task-force role given as a board seat, and planned obligations given as costs). Every coverage record now has an address that names no one. Reports more than seven days from their event are no longer listed under it, and names that came only from reports about something else are no longer shown with the event; the "Who was named" list shows only names the event's text or its reports' titles carry. The tracker spreadsheets name a company only where it is the one the tracker counts. |
| Oct 12, 2026 | The title of every report listed under an event was read against it: 1,236 reports about something else, attached to 423 events by the clustering, are no longer listed or counted. Outlet names are now the report's own site unless the feed's name matches it. The 239 events whose address or report titles named a private person in a crime, court or health matter, or a minor, have addresses that name no one, and their report titles are not shown. Every headline, sentence and key fact was read again for who did what to whom and for the reports' own certainty: 39 headlines rewritten, 145 events made coverage records, 219 sentences and 317 key facts removed. Report text whose outlet reserves text and data mining (robots.txt, a TDM header or tdmrep.json: 6,465 reports) is no longer used for the summaries, and the events built on it were checked again. 414 category labels that did not fit their event were removed, and the trackers were read a second time (213 rows out). |
| Oct 11, 2026 | Trackers: a second model read every row and took out the 2,202 (of 3,884) that did not report what the tracker counts, such as a survey or a forecast about layoffs, a rumour the company denied, an appeal counted as a court decision or a summit counted as regulation; 5 events counted twice were merged. It reads each day's new rows since. |
| Oct 11, 2026 | The whole archive's machine summaries checked for legal safety and against their reports: statements that read as an accusation, an opinion, advice or a prediction were rewritten to what the reports attribute to whom, or removed; statements the reports do not support were removed (about 3,000 summary sentences and 9,100 key facts); about 4,900 events were written again from their reports, 371 more whose every sentence was unsupported were written again and checked again, and events with no summary that passed these checks, or whose headline the reports did not support (788), are shown as coverage records (their outlets and links). People who are not public figures are no longer named on the site's name lists or given pages. |
| Oct 11, 2026 | Duplicate events merged again with a stricter rule (1,113 events in all, never by chains of similar events, including one event filed on two desks); outlet counts by registrable domain, with a syndication network counted once; feed metadata no longer shown as an outlet name. |
| Oct 11, 2026 | First pass: duplicate events merged (448 pairs the pipeline had opened twice); outlet counts recounted by site, so a reporter's byline no longer counts as a second outlet; machine-generated stock-scan sites removed with the events built only from them; funding, acquisition, earnings and layoff tracker rows that reported something else removed by headline rules. |
| Oct 11, 2026 | Methodology: the classifier was named as Llama 3.3 70B on Groq; it is DeepSeek V4 Flash. |
What we do not change
We do not change an outlet's report, which is theirs; we only change how we summarise and file it. We do not remove an event because its subject dislikes the coverage, when the reports are accurate and public.