Corrections Policy

Corrections Policy

ShadabChow.com is committed to accuracy, transparency, and accountability.

This Corrections Policy explains how readers, sources, subjects, public officials, attorneys, organizations, and community members can request corrections, clarifications, updates, or review of published material.

What qualifies as a correction?

A correction may be appropriate when an article includes a factual error, such as:

• Incorrect name
• Incorrect date
• Incorrect location
• Incorrect quote
• Incorrect attribution
• Incorrect case status
• Incorrect public record reference
• Incorrect image or video context
• Incorrect statement about a person, organization, or event
• A material omission that changes the meaning of the article

Corrections are used for factual errors. They are not the same as disagreements, opinion differences, criticism, or requests to remove accurate public-interest reporting.

What qualifies as a clarification?

A clarification may be appropriate when information is technically accurate but could be clearer, more complete, or less likely to be misunderstood.

Clarifications may address:

• Ambiguous wording
• Missing context
• Updated official statements
• Timeline details
• Legal status
• Source descriptions
• Distinction between allegation and confirmed fact
• Additional public records

What qualifies as an update?

An update may be appropriate when a story changes after publication.

Updates may include:

• New charges
• Dropped charges
• Court outcomes
• Official responses
• New records
• Correction of public information
• Additional evidence
• New statements from involved parties
• Safety or community updates
• Follow-up reporting

Updates may be added to the article body, headline, subheadline, editor’s note, timestamp, or related coverage.

How to request a correction

To request a correction, use the Contact page and include:

• The article URL
• The headline or title
• The specific statement, image, video, caption, or claim at issue
• What you believe is inaccurate or incomplete
• The correction you believe should be made
• Supporting evidence, public records, documents, or links
• Your name and contact information, if you want a response
• Your relationship to the story, if relevant

Correction requests without enough detail may be difficult to review.

What evidence helps?

Helpful evidence may include:

• Court documents
• Public records
• Official statements
• Government records
• Police or agency updates
• Direct documentation
• Timestamped source material
• Original photos or videos
• Archived pages
• Reliable published sources

Screenshots alone may not be enough unless they can be authenticated or supported by additional context.

Review process

Correction requests are reviewed based on available evidence, editorial judgment, public-interest value, and the article’s original sourcing.

The review may include:

• Rechecking source material
• Reviewing public records
• Comparing article language to available evidence
• Contacting sources when appropriate
• Adding context or clarification
• Updating the article
• Declining the request if the article is accurate or the claim is unsupported

The site is not required to respond to every request.

Corrections, editor’s notes, and timestamps

When a material correction is made, the site may:

• Correct the article text
• Add an editor’s note
• Add a correction note
• Update the article timestamp
• Add a clarification line
• Add new context to the article
• Link to related follow-up coverage

Requests for removal, de-indexing, or takedown

Not every complaint is a correction request.

Requests to remove accurate reporting, de-index a story, hide public records, or suppress truthful public-interest reporting are reviewed separately from factual corrections.

ShadabChow.com does not automatically remove accurate reporting because someone dislikes it, finds it embarrassing, or wants it removed from search results.

Such requests may be considered based on privacy, safety, legal risk, public-interest value, age of the information, accuracy, and editorial judgment.

Allegations, arrests, and legal outcomes

Stories involving arrests, charges, lawsuits, investigations, and allegations may evolve over time.

An allegation is not proof. An arrest is not a conviction. Legal outcomes should be updated when credible new information becomes available.

If a story needs a material update because charges were dropped, a person was cleared, a case was dismissed, or official findings changed, the site may update the story or add follow-up context.

Abusive or bad-faith requests

The site may ignore or decline requests that are abusive, threatening, spammy, fraudulent, repetitive without new evidence, or plainly unsupported.

Contact

Use the Contact page for correction requests, clarification requests, or article concerns.