Policy

Corrections Policy

Last reviewed: 2026-08-21

Deceit commits to correcting errors visibly and promptly. This page describes our correction process and logs every correction we have made.

Principles

▌Transparency. Corrections are visible. We do not silently edit posts to remove errors. Every correction is logged on this page with the date, the change, and the reason.
▌Timeliness. When an error is confirmed, we correct it within 48 hours. The dateModified field in each post's structured data is updated to reflect the change.
▌Proportionality. Minor fixes (typos, broken links) are made without a correction log entry. Substantive changes (verdict changes, factual corrections, source updates) are logged here.
▌Retractions. If a post is fundamentally wrong, we retract it. The page remains online with a retraction notice at the top and a noindex directive. We do not delete the URL.

How to report an error

If you find an error in any Deceit post, email [email protected] with:

The URL of the post.
The specific claim that is wrong.
The source that contradicts it.

We review every correction request. If the error is confirmed, we correct it, update the dateModified field, and log the correction below.

Formal retraction demands and legal notices follow the same route: the same address, with "Retraction demand" in the subject line. We acknowledge these within 72 hours, and confirmed errors are corrected on the 48-hour standard above.

Correction log

#12026-08-21

Christians were surrounded and screamed at in Dearborn, a viral post says.

Change: The piece said Jake Lang served four years for an eleven-count indictment and that Donald Trump dismissed his convictions. Lang has no convictions. He spent four years in pretrial detention as the longest-held January 6 defendant still awaiting trial, and was pardoned before that trial happened. The Minneapolis passage was also re-sourced from Wikipedia onto Star Tribune and NBC News reporting, and three details in it were tightened to match what those outlets documented.

Reason: The error was inherited from Wikipedia, which describes the dismissed charges as dismissed convictions. Reporting confirms he was never tried. Saying a named living person was convicted of crimes he was only ever charged with is the kind of error this site exists to catch, so it is logged here rather than quietly amended.

#22026-07-02

Hillsong's whistleblower was told to deceive regulators.

Change: Verdict changed from "False" to "Institutional deception".

Reason: The previous verdict "False" was ambiguous, it was unclear whether it referred to Hillsong's denials being false or the propaganda being false. The new verdict is more precise.

#32026-07-02

The Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps operated for 30 years.

Change: Verdict changed from "False" to "Institutional deception". Language softened from direct "cult" labeling to BITE model clinical framing.

Reason: Editorial alignment with clinical framing standards: use BITE model terminology instead of "cult" label. The previous verdict was ambiguous for an institutional analysis post.

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