Documentation · Updated 13 November 2026
For newsrooms and publishers
If your publication appears in NewsFacts, this page covers what we collect, what we show, and how to raise a problem with a record.
What we collect from your site
Our crawler, NewsFactsBot, reads your public feed or news sitemap and the article pages listed in it. It identifies itself honestly, obeys robots.txt, never logs in and never passes a paywall. The NewsFactsBot page has the user agent, request rates and the robots.txt lines that stop it.
What we show
A record shows the story's headline, the times we saved each version, and the passages that changed, as short excerpts with the surrounding text cut away. Every record links to the article on your site. We don't reproduce full articles, and we don't show images.
We don't rate outlets, rank them, or comment on why a change was made. Outlets are listed alphabetically and all are collected under the same rules, which are set out in the methodology.
If a record is wrong
Our process for reading story text from a page can fail, and a failure can look like an edit. If you believe a record shows a change that didn't happen, or shows it inaccurately:
- Email hello@newsfacts.com or use the contact form.
- Include the record's link (it looks like
https://newsfacts.com/r/1234) and say what you believe is wrong.
We will compare the record against the versions we saved. If the error is ours, we take the change down and mark it as our error. If the saved versions do show the change, the record stays, and we'll tell you what we found.
If a record is right but lacks context
A record shows what changed, not why. If your newsroom has published an explanation, such as a correction note or a standards page entry, send us the link. Correction and editor's notes that appear on the article itself are picked up automatically and shown on the record in your words.
Corrections and the "update notice" tag
Each edit is tagged according to whether the page signaled it. We count a change as signaled when a correction, clarification or editor's note is added to the article, or when the page's machine-readable modified date (dateModified in the article's structured data, or article:modified_time) is updated with the change. Keeping that date accurate is the simplest way for routine updates to be recorded as signaled. How the tags are defined.
Removing your site from collection
Add a robots.txt rule for NewsFactsBot and collection stops within a day, when the file is next read. The lines are on the bot page.