Corrections Policy
Last reviewed 2026-05-15.
LGBTQ News corrects errors quickly, openly, and on the record.
How to request a correction
Email editor@nexcom.media with:
- The article URL (https://lgbtqnews.org/news/...)
- The specific sentence, statistic, or detail you believe is wrong
- The correct information and a source for it (link, document, contact)
- Your name and contact information (optional but speeds review)
How we evaluate
- We acknowledge receipt of every correction request within 4 hours.
- We verify the claim against original sources, primary documents, and independent confirmation.
- We publish a correction or clarification within 24 hours of confirmation.
- If we cannot confirm the error after good-faith investigation, we email you with our findings.
What a correction looks like
When we correct an article, we:
- Edit the affected text in the article body
- Add a Correction notice at the bottom of the article with the date, what was wrong, and what is now correct
- Update
dateModified in the article's JSON-LD
- Add an entry to our public correction log (link below)
- Notify Google + Bing via IndexNow that the article was modified
Categories of changes
- Correction
- A material factual error has been fixed. Always labeled.
- Clarification
- The original text was technically accurate but could be misleading. Edited for clarity.
- Update
- New information has emerged since publication. Added with a timestamp.
- Editor's note
- Context about reporting decisions, conflicts of interest, or sourcing.
Removal & retraction
We do not remove published articles except in narrow circumstances:
- Court order
- Substantial legal risk (defamation that cannot be cured by correction)
- Victim privacy harm (e.g., naming a sexual assault victim without consent)
- Article was wholly fabricated or plagiarized
Removed articles are replaced with a public retraction notice at the same URL explaining why.
Correction log
Corrections are logged at /corrections (when populated) with article URL, date, original text, and corrected text. The log is publicly accessible and indexed.
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