Getting it wrong

When a story is corrected, the change is made on the story itself and the time it was made is recorded. The Updated stamp beneath a byline means the text changed after publication — it is not a freshness badge, and it is not applied for typographical fixes that leave the meaning alone.

Silent edits are not the practice here. A substantive change to what a story claims carries a note saying what changed. A story that turns out to be wrong in its central claim is corrected rather than quietly deleted; the URL keeps working.

What counts as substantive

• A figure, date, name or jurisdiction that was wrong.
• A claim attributed to the wrong person, company or document.
• A characterisation the underlying source does not support.
• A source link that pointed at the wrong story.

Chainpress does not claim individual editorial sign-off on each item, and it does not print a claim of review it cannot stand behind. Treat what you read as you would any unreviewed source: the facts should be verifiable in the reporting credited at the foot of each story, and where they are not, the story is wrong and is worth reporting.

Aggregated headlines are a different case. Those are the publisher’s own headline and summary, carried unchanged with a link back — a mistake in one is theirs to fix, though telling us means the card comes down. How Chainpress works sets out the distinction.