Corrections Policy

Last updated: June 2, 2026

Zorywire aims to publish accurate, fair, and clearly presented journalism. When we make a material error, we aim to correct it clearly and responsibly.

This Corrections Policy explains how readers, sources, article subjects, and other affected people can report possible errors in Zorywire content, and how we review and handle correction requests.

1. Our correction standard

We review correction requests carefully and in good faith.

Where we identify a significant factual inaccuracy, misleading statement, material omission, misattribution, or distortion, we aim to correct the relevant content promptly and with appropriate visibility.

The form of the correction depends on the nature and seriousness of the issue, the prominence of the original content, the public interest, and the need to avoid creating further confusion.

2. What may qualify for a correction

A correction request may relate to:

• an incorrect name, title, date, location, figure, quote, attribution, or source reference;
• a materially inaccurate headline, summary, image caption, chart, tag, or metadata;
• a factual statement that is unsupported by the article or source material;
• a misleading presentation of facts;
• an important missing context that materially changes the reader's understanding;
• a broken or incorrect source link;
• a misidentification of a person, organisation, place, image, or event;
• an article update that should be more clearly distinguished from the original publication.

3. What usually does not qualify for a correction

Not every disagreement requires a correction.

We may decline a correction request where it is based only on:

• disagreement with an opinion, analysis, editorial judgment, framing, or news selection;
• a request to remove accurate public-interest reporting;
• a request to rewrite an article to promote a particular viewpoint;
• a minor style preference that does not affect accuracy;
• a typographical or formatting issue that does not materially affect meaning;
• a later development that does not make the original reporting inaccurate at the time it was published;
• an unsupported allegation that cannot reasonably be verified;
• abuse, spam, threats, or bad-faith attempts to suppress lawful reporting.

Where appropriate, later developments may be handled as an update, follow-up article, or clarification rather than a correction.

4. Types of editorial changes

Depending on the issue, we may use one or more of the following remedies.

Correction

A correction is used when published content contains a factual error or materially misleading statement.

Clarification

A clarification is used when the original content was not necessarily wrong, but could have been clearer or may have created a misleading impression.

Update

An update is used when new information becomes available after publication or when a developing story changes.

Editor's note

An editor's note may be used for more significant matters, including substantial revisions, disputes about sourcing, legal concerns, or transparency around how an article changed.

Removal or restriction

Removal is exceptional. We may remove or restrict content where required by law, where there is a serious safety or privacy concern, where rights have been infringed, or where continued publication is no longer editorially justified.

5. How corrections appear

Where a significant correction or clarification is made, we will usually add a visible note to the article.

A correction note may explain:

• what was wrong or unclear;
• what has been changed;
• when the correction or clarification was made;
• whether the headline, body, image, caption, metadata, or source reference was affected.

Minor spelling, grammar, formatting, link, or style fixes that do not affect meaning may be made without a correction note.

For developing stories, we may update the article and indicate that it has been updated where the change is material.

6. How to request a correction

To request a correction, use our Contact page or the contact details in our Legal Notice.

Please include:

• your full name;
• your email address;
• the URL of the article or page;
• the exact statement, headline, image, caption, tag, source reference, or other part you believe is wrong;
• a clear explanation of the issue;
• the correction or clarification you believe is needed;
• supporting evidence, such as official records, source documents, public statements, or other reliable references;
• whether you are personally affected by the content.

Please do not send confidential, sensitive, legally privileged, classified, or unsafe material unless we have specifically agreed a secure process with you.

7. What happens after you contact us

After receiving a correction request, we may:

• acknowledge receipt where appropriate;
• review the article and the specific issue raised;
• check source material and available evidence;
• contact you for more information;
• contact the article author, editor, source, or subject where appropriate;
• correct, clarify, update, restrict, remove, or leave the content unchanged;
• explain our decision where appropriate.

We do not guarantee that every request will receive an individual response, especially where a request is abusive, repetitive, unsupported, unrelated to accuracy, or made in bad faith.

8. Timing

We aim to review correction requests as soon as reasonably possible.

The time needed depends on the seriousness and complexity of the issue, the availability of evidence, whether legal review is needed, whether third parties must be contacted, and whether the story is still developing.

Urgent issues involving serious factual errors, safety risks, legal risk, or possible misidentification should be clearly marked as urgent in the message.

9. Right of reply

Where a significant factual allegation is made about a person or organisation, we may provide a fair opportunity to respond where appropriate and practical.

A right of reply does not guarantee that a response will be published in full or in the form requested. We may edit responses for length, clarity, legal risk, relevance, and editorial standards.

10. Legal complaints and rights requests

If your request concerns defamation, privacy, copyright, data protection, confidentiality, court orders, safety, or other legal rights, please use the contact details in our Legal Notice.

Include enough detail for us to identify the content and understand the legal issue.

Privacy requests should be handled according to our Privacy Policy. Copyright and other rights notices should identify the relevant work, rights owner, URL, and requested action.

This Corrections Policy does not limit any legal rights you may have under applicable law.

11. Archived and older content

Older articles may remain part of the public record.

We may correct, clarify, update, annotate, archive, restrict, or remove older content where appropriate. We generally do not remove accurate archived reporting only because time has passed or because the article later became inconvenient to a person or organisation.

Where later developments materially affect an older article, we may add an update or editor's note instead of rewriting the article as if the later facts were known at the time of publication.

12. Social media, RSS, search, and feeds

Zorywire content may appear in feeds, RSS, search results, social previews, and third-party services.

When we correct or update an article, the correction will normally be made on the article page. We cannot guarantee that third-party platforms, search engines, feed readers, or cached services will update their copies or previews immediately.

Where a significant error was separately distributed through a Zorywire-controlled channel, we may take additional steps where appropriate.

13. Abuse of the corrections process

The corrections process must not be used to harass staff, intimidate sources, suppress lawful reporting, submit spam, or make threats.

We may decline to respond to abusive, repetitive, bad-faith, unsupported, or irrelevant requests.

14. Contact

Correction requests may be sent through our Contact page or the contact details in our Legal Notice.

Please include the article URL and a clear explanation of the issue.