Corrections Policy

This publication exists to establish what is actually known about an incident. That is only worth something if its own errors are handled the same way it asks others to handle theirs: found, stated plainly, and left in the record.

Reporting an error

Email hello@threatpaper.com. Useful reports name the paper or claim, quote the passage in question, and say what the correct position is and which source establishes it.

A source is not required. A report saying only “this date looks wrong” is still worth sending — verifying it is this publication’s job, not the reporter’s.

What happens next

Reports are checked against primary sources. Where an error is confirmed, the paper is corrected and a correction is appended to it recording what was wrong, what it now says, and the date. The original error is described rather than erased, because a reader who acted on the earlier version needs to know what changed.

Where a report is not upheld, the reasoning is explained in reply. A claim rating that is disputed but not overturned may still be rewritten if the disagreement shows the assessment was unclear.

What counts as a correction

Factual errors are corrected and logged: wrong dates, wrong version numbers, misattributed sources, miscited advisories, incorrect indicators, and claim ratings that the evidence does not support.

Typographical fixes, formatting, and clarifications that do not change meaning are made without a log entry. Changes to a claim’s rating are always logged, since the rating is the substance of the assessment.

Takedown and dispute

If you are named in a paper and believe the characterisation is inaccurate, write to the same address. Individuals are named only where public court filings or official statements already name them, and an accusation is never presented as a conviction. Where proceedings conclude differently from how a paper described them, that is a correction and will be published as one.