Three different things get confused as corrections

Separating them is the whole substance of this policy, because HappeningNow has real authority over only the first.

• An error in HappeningNow's own output — a wrong summary, a mislabelled category or topic, a broken or misdirected source link, a wrong timestamp, a bad count, or a context section that should not have appeared. These are ours, and we correct them.
• An error in an original publisher's reporting. HappeningNow cannot correct another organization's journalism, and will not silently rewrite what a publisher reported. Those reports are raised with the publisher and, where the publisher issues a correction, the platform reflects the corrected report.
• A changed situation. When events move on, the earlier state was not wrong. That produces an update record with its own date, not a correction, and the earlier record is not quietly overwritten.

What we correct

Anything HappeningNow generated or computed is in scope: summary text that misrepresents its source report, a story attributed to the wrong publication, a link that does not lead to the report it claims, a category or topic assignment that is plainly wrong, an incorrect date or count, and context that appeared when it should not have.

Where the underlying cause is a rule rather than a single page — a threshold, a taxonomy rule, an automation boundary — the fix is made in the rule, and the change is recorded in the revision history of the affected standards page. A page-level patch that leaves the cause in place is not a correction.

What we cannot correct

HappeningNow does not independently verify the claims inside publisher reporting, and so cannot rule on whether a publisher's report is factually right. Disputes about the substance of a report belong with the organization that published it. What HappeningNow can always fix is how that report is represented on this platform: its attribution, its link, its labels, its timing, and any summary of it.

How to report an error

Use the contact form and choose "Correction Request" as the inquiry type. Reports sent that way are routed as corrections rather than general feedback.

Please include the page address where you saw the problem, what specifically is wrong, and — where you have it — the publisher report that shows the correct position. That is usually enough to reproduce the problem without a follow-up exchange.

What happens next

Reports are reviewed by the owner named on this page. Where the report identifies an error in HappeningNow's own output, the error is fixed and the reader who reported it is answered. Where it identifies an error in a publisher's reporting, we say so plainly and point to the publisher, rather than leaving the impression that we have adjudicated it.

This policy does not promise a fixed turnaround, because HappeningNow is independently operated and would rather publish a commitment it keeps than a schedule it does not. What is committed to is that reports are read, that errors in our own output are fixed at their cause, and that corrections are recorded rather than made silently.

Corrections are recorded, not hidden

A correction to a rule or a policy is recorded in the revision history of the standards page that describes it, with a date. Corrections to individual pages are made on the page itself. The intent is that a reader can always distinguish a correction from a routine update, and can see when the rules they are reading came into force.