Corrections

Corrections

Moonkelp publishes automatically. No human reads a briefing before it goes out. That is a deliberate design decision — and the reason this page exists: where a newsroom checks before publication, we check before with machines and after with you.

What happens before publication

Every claim has to point at a source. A second model cross-checks, and what fails the check is dropped rather than softened. Every briefing carries the number of claims checked and the number dropped; sources sit as links on the story, not in a footnote.

What that does not do

It does not prevent mistakes. A model can quote a source correctly and still summarise it wrongly. A source can be wrong itself. A number can go stale while it is still on the page. Anyone promising otherwise is promising something no machine can hold.

How to report an error

Through the feedback channel in the footer of every page, subject “A claim is wrong”. If you are on a story at the time, your report is attached to that story automatically — then the sentence that is wrong is all we need. No account and no email address required; an address only if you want an answer.

Report an error

If you would rather write: contact@moonkelp.com

What happens next

Every report is read. We check it against the source, not against the text: is the claim in the evidence? Does the evidence carry what we made of it? If you left an address, we answer within three working days — including when we stand by the claim. A confirmed error is corrected as soon as it is confirmed, not at the next deadline.

What a correction looks like

We do not delete, and we do not quietly rewrite. A corrected story carries a visible note with the date and what was changed. Where the original sentence makes the change intelligible, it stays readable. A mistake you can no longer see is not a correction, it is a repair job.

What is not a correction

A different reading is not an error. Moonkelp puts the strongest version of both sides on every story; holding one of them to be wrong is a position, not a finding. We correct facts, numbers, attributions and quotes. We are happy to argue about judgement — it stands as long as its evidence stands.

What we do not change in hindsight

A briefing is where the day stood, not a reference work. When the situation changes, a new briefing is written — not a new yesterday. The archive therefore stays as it was, with its date. We correct what was wrong on the day of publication; not what has turned out differently since.