We publish numbers for a living, so a wrong one isn’t a rounding error to us — it’s the thing we exist to get right. Here is exactly what happens when we miss.
What a correction looks like
When we fix a factual error, we don’t quietly swap the text. We leave a dated note at the top of the article that says what was wrong and what’s right, so a reader who saw the first version knows what changed. It reads like this:
Correction, July 3, 2026: An earlier version of this article said the tire-recall window was 60 days. Federal law sets it at 180 days. The figure has been corrected.
Small stuff we fix silently
Typos, a broken link, a mislabeled photo, a formatting glitch — things that don’t change the meaning — we simply fix without a notice. The dated notice is reserved for anything that could have changed what you understood or did.
Flag something in three lines
Email [email protected] with: (1) the link to the article, (2) the sentence or number you think is off, and (3) a source for the right answer if you have one. A primary source — the agency page, the filing, the release — gets us there fastest.
What we’ll do, and how fast
We check every flag against the original source. If you’re right, we correct the piece — usually the same business day we confirm it — and post the notice. If we think the article is right, we won’t leave you hanging: we’ll write back and show you the source we relied on. Either way, you hear from a person.
Corrections aren’t an admission that the system failed — they’re the system working. Every figure we run is checked before it publishes; the notice is how we stay honest about the times we still slip.