Corrections and retractions

Request a correction

Use the contact form and choose Submit a correction. Include the record URL, what is wrong, and a public source that supports the fix. Anonymous tips are accepted when they include verifiable evidence.

Record pages also link to correction submission from the public-record action band at the bottom of graph, incident, and Desk surfaces.

What happens next

1. We triage against the publication gate — corrections must cite public sources.
2. Accepted fixes update the structured record (summary, sources, confidence, or PSF mapping) and regenerate the graph seed.
3. Material changes keep the canonical URL; the record reflects the corrected state with an updated freshness timestamp.
4. If the underlying claim cannot be supported, the record is retracted through the fleet retraction path rather than left standing.

Retractions

Retraction is required when a record fails corroboration on review, duplicates a withdrawn source, or includes data that should never have been public. Retracted records are removed from active Desk rails; where SEO or citations require continuity, the URL may remain with a clear retraction notice.

The retraction path is part of the ten-check publication gate — see method for the full pipeline.