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This page describes what counts as an error in the day's report, how errors are caught, and what happens when one is published.
A change in the news is not an error. A casualty figure revised after a briefing, or an account challenged the next morning, is the reporting changing, and the day's report changes with it. An error is a mistake in the report itself. Examples are a claim attributed to the wrong outlet, a quotation that does not match what was said, or an event presented as complete while its accounts were still changing.
Matching algorithms check the report before it is posted. Every quotation of five or more words is checked word for word against its source. Every claim is traced to the outlet that published it. Each event's text is checked so that it cannot contain a quotation from another event's sources. When a check fails, the release stops.
The checks are algorithms, and cases arise that they were not built for. A quotation can slip past a matcher. An attribution can land incorrectly in an unanticipated form. The checks make errors rare. They do not make them impossible.
When an error is found after publication, the page is corrected and a dated note is added stating what changed and why. The archive keeps the day as originally published. Every correction is listed on the corrections page, newest first.
To report an error, write to info@offspeedventures.com. Every report is read and answered.