Corrections
We get things wrong sometimes. When we do, we fix it in the open and leave a record of what changed.
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How a correction works here
The error is fixed in the article itself, and a dated note at the foot of the piece says what it said before. Both halves matter. Fixing it quietly leaves anyone who read the wrong version with no way to find out, and a note without a fix leaves the error standing.
A correction note looks like this: "Corrected August 29, 2026: an earlier version said the fine was 400 euros. It was 40."
What gets a note
The response scales to the mistake. A typo or a broken link gets a quiet fix, because a note about a missing comma is noise dressed up as accountability.
Anything that changes what the story means gets a visible, dated note. A wrong number, a wrong place, a wrong name, a wrong outcome: if correcting it changes what you took away from the piece, you get told.
If a story turns out not to be true
This is the one that matters most on a beat like ours. If something we ran turns out to have been satire, a mistranslation, or an old story recirculated as new, we do not quietly pull it and hope nobody noticed.
The article stays up, corrected at the top, saying plainly what was wrong and how it got past us. A retracted story that vanishes teaches nobody anything, including us.
Articles do not disappear
A published article is not silently deleted, and its URL does not change. A link to a story from last year keeps working.
If a piece genuinely has to come down, we say that it came down and why, rather than leaving a gap where it used to be.
Tell us
If something here is wrong, write to contact@topkeknews.com and point at it. A link to the article and a line about what is off is plenty.
People who live somewhere we wrote about catch things we cannot, and we would rather be corrected than be wrong for longer. Nobody needs to argue their way past a defensive editor to get a fact fixed.