Corrections and disputes
How to tell us a record is wrong, what we do about it, and when we take something down.
If you think a record is wrong
Email hello@newsfacts.com or use the contact form. Include the record's address (it looks like https://newsfacts.com/r/1234) and say what you believe is wrong. Anyone can do this: a reader, a reporter, or the outlet concerned.
What we do
- We aim to reply within 7 days.
- We compare the record with the versions and pages we saved, which are fingerprinted and independently timestamped.
- If the mistake is ours, for example our software misread the page, we take the change down, mark it in our archive as our error, and tell you.
- If the saved versions show the change as published, the record stays, and we tell you what we found.
Corrections to our own pages
When we correct something we have published, whether a record, a guide or a page like this one, we fix it and say so. A corrected record is removed from the public list; a corrected article carries a dated note describing what changed.
What we take down, and what we don't
We remove a published change when it is not a real change to the story: a misread page, a half-loaded page, promotional text mistaken for the story, or a live blog recorded as an article.
We don't remove an accurate record because the edit it shows was routine, well intended, or later explained. A record shows what changed and when; it makes no claim about why. If your newsroom has published an explanation, send us the link.
Copyright
Records show short excerpts of the passages that changed and link to the original article. We don't publish full articles. If you hold the rights to material on this site and believe an excerpt goes beyond fair quotation, email hello@newsfacts.com with the record's address, the material concerned and your contact details, and we will review it promptly.
Removing a site from collection
A publisher can stop our collector at any time with a robots.txt rule. The details are on the NewsFactsBot page.
Last updated 13 November 2026.