Corrections

A publication that sets out to verify information gets things wrong like any other. The difference lies in what it does next.

How we correct

Errors are corrected visibly and with a date. The original text is not quietly deleted or replaced without notice.

Depending on severity:

• Typographical, spelling or formatting errors: corrected without a note, as they do not alter meaning.
• Errors of data, figure, date, name or attribution:corrected with a note at the end of the article, stating what changed and when.
• Errors that undermine the article's conclusion: a note at the top of the text, describing the error and its effect on what was published.
• An article that is wrong throughout: kept online, with a notice at the top stating that its content does not hold and why. Taking it down would erase the record of the error.

The date of each article's last revision appears alongside its publication date.

Updates are not corrections

Where an article is updated with new information — a subsequent report, data that has since become available — this is marked as an update, not a correction. They are different things and should not be conflated.

How to report an error

Write tocontato@ludodata.com.

It helps considerably if the message includes:

• the article's address
• the specific passage in question
• what the correct information would be
• the source supporting the correction, where there is one

Correction requests are answered. Where a correction is not accepted, the reply explains why.

Right of reply

People and companies named in Ludodata's analyses may submit a statement regarding what was published. Pertinent statements are incorporated into the article or published alongside it, identified as such.