Corrections and Updates
The public record should show what happened
Boho News corrects material errors promptly, explains meaningful changes, and preserves the actual date and time an article first became public.
We do not silently transform an approval time, batch date, commit time, or convenient estimate into a publication time.
Publication time
The Published time on an article is the actual time the article first became publicly accessible at its canonical bohonews.com URL.
It is not:
- when the draft was approved;
- when a handoff was approved;
- when a file was created;
- when a commit was made;
- when a preview was built;
- when publication was scheduled;
- when someone decided the article should appear published.
The machine-readable timestamp is stored in UTC. The site displays it in Central Time.
Publication history
Every article begins with a simple public record:
Published: [date and time]
When an article changes materially, the history adds a dated entry explaining what changed.
Examples:
Updated: July 27, 2026, 9:04 a.m. CDT - Added the Senate vote and explained how it differs from the House resolution.
Corrected: July 28, 2026, 2:11 p.m. CDT - An earlier version misstated the number of members who did not vote. The correct number is nine.
Clarified: July 29, 2026, 11:40 a.m. CDT - Clarified that importers pay the tariff at the border rather than foreign governments paying it directly.
Public history describes reader-relevant changes. It does not list internal approvals, batches, work orders, repositories, compilers, or deployment mechanics.
What counts as an update
We update the public timestamp when we:
- add a material fact or development;
- change the central framing or conclusion;
- materially change the headline or dek;
- add evidence that changes the reader’s understanding;
- publish a correction or clarification;
- change a retraction, removal, or supersession state.
We do not change the update time for:
- spelling, grammar, punctuation, or style edits that do not alter meaning;
- repaired links;
- accessibility improvements;
- image compression;
- layout or typography;
- analytics or infrastructure changes;
- internal notes or provenance.
Corrections
A material factual error receives a visible correction.
The correction explains:
- what was wrong;
- what the correct information is;
- when the correction became public;
- whether the headline, image, dek, or central conclusion changed.
We do not silently rewrite material errors.
Clarifications
A clarification is used when the original wording was incomplete, ambiguous, or reasonably open to a mistaken interpretation, even when it was not strictly false.
A clarification should not be used to disguise a correction.
Editor’s notes
An editor’s note may explain a significant sourcing issue, legal development, conflict, methodological limitation, or editorial decision that readers need to understand.
Retractions and removals
A retraction is used when the central reporting is no longer supportable.
A removal may occur when publication would violate law, create a serious safety risk, expose severe private harm, violate rights, or preserve unsupported central claims.
Retraction and removal notices remain visible whenever law and safety permit. We do not erase the fact that an article existed merely to avoid embarrassment.
Superseded reports
A developing report may be superseded by a more complete canonical article.
The old page should identify the replacement and stop presenting itself as the current account.
Minor edits
We may silently fix typographical errors, punctuation, formatting, broken links, accessibility labels, or other defects that do not change meaning.
Silent editing is not used to conceal material errors or meaningful changes.
Request a correction
Send correction requests to corrections@bohonews.com.
Please include:
- the article URL;
- the exact sentence, image, chart, caption, or data point in dispute;
- why you believe it is wrong or misleading;
- the evidence supporting your request;
- your name and contact information;
- any relevant interest or relationship you have to the story.
We evaluate the evidence, not the requester’s status or influence.
A request does not guarantee a correction, removal, or reply. Good-faith requests are reviewed seriously, and retaliation for requesting a correction is prohibited by our governance.