When we get something wrong, we say so on the page itself.
The policy
- Errors get a dated correction note appended to the article. Never a silent edit.
- The note states what was wrong and what is now correct — specifically enough that a reader who saw the original version knows exactly what changed.
- If a correction changes the grade, the note says so explicitly, including what the grade was before. A verdict that quietly changes is indistinguishable from a verdict that was never wrong, and readers deserve to know which one they are looking at.
- Typos, broken links, and formatting fixes do not get a note. Anything touching a fact, a figure, a source, or a verdict does.
Why it works this way
A site that grades other people's accuracy has no standing to be quiet about its own. The correction note is the receipt: it stays on the page permanently, it is dated, and it does not disappear when the story stops being current.
We would rather carry a visible record of having been wrong than present an unblemished archive that has been edited into looking correct.
Telling us
If something here is wrong, we want to know — particularly if you can point at the source that shows it. Corrections do not require agreeing with our conclusions; a bad citation is a bad citation regardless of whether the verdict survives fixing it.