CrickeTalk – Correction Policy

Fact-Checking and Verification

At CrickeTalk, our fact-check team takes all necessary steps to ensure that the information we publish is verified. We strive to be promptly responsive in correcting any errors in the material published on our platform. When we issue a correction, clarification, or editor’s note on our social media handles, our goal is to inform readers as clearly and quickly as possible about what was wrong and what is correct. Anyone should be able to understand how and why a mistake has been corrected.

Updating a Report

We make it a practice to add notes to stories if they have been updated. It is important for us to use a correction or clarification to inform readers whenever we correct a significant mistake or edit a story to include comments and updates from a stakeholder.

Corrections

If we substantially correct an article, photo caption, headline, graphic, video, or other material, we promptly publish a correction explaining the need for the change. For any factual error in our fact-check articles, as soon as it comes to our notice, we publish a revised article with a new conclusion and explain the correction at the top of the article. This revised article is then distributed on all our social media platforms.

Clarifications

When our journalism is factually correct but the language used to explain those facts is not as clear or detailed as it should be, we rewrite the language and add a clarification to the story. A clarification is also used to note if we initially failed to seek a comment or response that has since been added to the story.

Other Corrections Policies

When an error is found by a reader and posted in the comment stream, our community engagement team can indicate in the comments that it has been corrected. When we publish erroneous information on social networks, we correct it on that platform. If we cannot alter the incorrect information, we retract it.If you believe a story we have published is inaccurate, please suggest corrections via the ‘Suggest A Correction’ section that appears at the end of every web story we publish. We also request our community members to send corrections to cricketalk247@gmail.com.