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Published corrections Correction — Saturday, 12 September 2026
Today's Good News repeated the August 29 item The morning edition contained the Good News column with the piece “In
2025 the world installed 800 gigawatts of renewables in one year”. The
same story, with the same three sources, had already appeared in this column on
August 29 , under the title “In 2025 the world added 800 gigawatts of
renewables, historic high according to the IEA”.
The figures are accurate in both pieces: the Global Energy Review 2026
by the International Energy Agency, the REGlobal summary and the different
Irena estimate are cited correctly. What fails is the method. This
newspaper’s charter requires updating rather than repeating: a story
already told is admitted only if it has new developments, and in that case
the piece starts from the development. Between August 29 and today there has been no
development, and today’s piece does not indicate any. It should not have run.
The error stems from a limitation of the system that writes the newspaper. The editor
receives the memory of the last seven days, and August 29 was outside that
window. The check that prevents duplicates compares pieces
within the same edition and between morning and afternoon, but no check
compares a column with its own previous editions. And the column’s search
instructions ask for International Energy Agency data published in recent
days: that report keeps appearing at the top of the results, and without
memory of having already used it, it was chosen again.
The article remains accessible with this note alongside it, and the correction is
recorded in the editorial archives. The editorial staff is modifying the
system so that each column receives the list of its previous editions and
so that a column piece with the same sources as a previous edition is discarded before publication.
Redazione Zero's corrections are public and stay next to the content they refer to. Corrections .
Correction — Saturday, 5 September 2026
Crew-13 will not launch in mid-September: NASA had already postponed it on August 29 The Tech analysis in the morning edition, “Hera will reach Dimorphos a
month early, in November,” gave “mid-September 2026” as the expected
departure date for the NASA/SpaceX Crew-13 mission to the International
Space Station, and closed on that date: “The first verifiable milestone
is therefore the launch of Crew-13 from Cape Canaveral, expected in
mid-September 2026.” That date had already passed by the time we wrote
it. On August 29 NASA postponed Crew-13, which had been due to launch
on September 12, because of an oxidizer leak in the Dragon capsule’s
propulsion system; repairs are estimated at two to four weeks and a new
date has not been announced.
The main part of the piece, on the European probe Hera, remains correct:
arrival at the Didymos-Dimorphos system is expected in November 2026, a
month ahead of the original schedule, with the release of two CubeSats.
The error stems from a source that was genuine but outdated. The sentence
on Crew-13 comes from the Station’s 2026 flight plan published by NASA on
May 1, which was in that day’s dossier and which was true as of May. The
verifier checks each statement against the excerpts of the sources
gathered, and found it supported: an accurate but superseded source is an
error that check cannot detect. The second opinion, which has access to
the network, stepped in because the piece rests on a single-source story:
it confirmed the part on Hera, which was the question at hand, and in its
note it wrote that Crew-13 had been “postponed since 8/29 due to an
oxidizer leak.” The system reads the verdict, not the note, and the piece
went out as it was.
The article remains available with this note alongside it, and the
correction is recorded in the newsroom’s archives: from today the
retracted claim may not be repeated in any piece. On the way the second
opinion weighs a note that contradicts the text, the newsroom is
reviewing the code.
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Correction — Thursday, 13 August 2026
Today's Around the World compared two Italian outlets, not five languages This morning’s edition contained a piece titled «Ceuta, the letter from the
22 leaders told in two different ways», published as Around the World.
The column promises a comparison among six to ten outlets in at least five
languages: that piece compared two, both Italian.
The facts reported are accurate and the two sources — Il Tempo and Il Post —
are cited correctly. What fails to hold up is the method, which in this
column is the content: if the value of the piece lies in comparing how the
same story is told in different languages and countries, two newspapers from
the same country do not make a trip around the world. The piece had noticed
this in its own way: it opened by redefining the column as the observation of
“different sources,” which is far less than what we promise.
The error stems from a decision of ours made correctly and applied only
halfway. Last night the publisher suspended Around the World precisely
because the newspaper’s research capability is not yet multilingual, and the
debut would have been incomplete. The suspension removed the column from the
schedule and switched off the expanded search, but the statute that the
writing system reads at every edition still contains the table of days,
Thursday included. The editor read it, saw that it was Thursday and wrote the
column on its own, with the day’s ordinary material: Italian articles. No
subsequent check could stop it, because the checks verify facts, and the facts
were correct.
The article remains available with this note attached, and the correction is
recorded in the newsroom’s archives. From today, a piece belonging to a
suspended column is discarded before it reaches verification, whatever the
writing system decides to write. Around the World remains suspended until
this newspaper’s research capability becomes international and multilingual:
the column exists to read the news in five languages, and until we can do
so, we will not publish it.
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Correction — Wednesday, 12 August 2026
The news about Spanish citizenship for 500,000 immigrants was false The morning edition of August 12, 2026 contained an analysis titled “Spain
grants citizenship to over 500,000 irregular immigrants.” The news is
false: Spain has not granted citizenship to anyone.
The actual measure is an extraordinary regularization. With Royal Decree
316/2026, approved on April 14 and entered into force two days later, the
Spanish government grants approximately 500,000 undocumented people — those
who can prove at least five months of presence in the country — a temporary
one-year residence and work permit, renewable. Citizenship is a different
legal institution and this decree does not touch it.
The error stems from a reversed reading of the source. The published title
is that of a fact-check by Pagella Politica — “No, Spain has not granted
citizenship to ‘500,000 irregular immigrants’” — stripped of the initial
negation . Pagella Politica was debunking a statement made on July 30 by
Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani; this newspaper’s writing system transcribed
the debunked claim as if it were a fact, and internal checks did not catch
it. Even the “criticisms from Italian political figures” cited in the piece
were that same statement, judged incorrect by the fact-check. The source was
correct; we were the ones who erred.
The article remains available with this note attached. The correction is
recorded in the newsroom’s archives, and the error has changed the
newspaper’s verification chain: from today, a second verifier with access
to web research will double-check, before publication, news items that rely
on a single source and claims that an internal check has already disputed
elsewhere in the edition.
Redazione Zero's corrections are public and stay next to the content they refer to. Corrections .
Correction — Sunday, 9 August 2026
The August 9 edition was published late and its editorial contained two false statements The morning edition of Sunday, August 9, 2026 was expected at 6:30 and was
published at 9:57 , three hours and twenty-seven minutes late. The cause was a
fault in the system that schedules the editions: from August 8 it could no longer
launch them, and the newspaper was published only thanks to a backup mechanism.
That edition’s editorial contained two false statements about the edition’s own
content.
It stated that it had covered the release of 308 people kidnapped in Nigeria “in
today’s Il Punto cieco.” The Il Punto cieco column was not published. That
story was not covered anywhere on Sunday.
It stated that the Economy and Markets section remained “without the article
provided for under the guaranteed coverage.” The article existed and was
published: “United States, employment declining and growth weaker.”
Also not published was the Diario di bordo , the Sunday column through which
this newspaper makes its costs and its errors public. It was to have appeared for
the first time.
The edition’s articles are not affected: the two false statements concerned what
the edition contained, not the facts reported.
The missing content was published today, dated today with the actual publication
time. This week’s Diario di bordo gives a full account of the fault: what broke,
why, what was corrected and what remains open.
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How we correct, as a rule The charter requires errors to be corrected with a visible note in the article and a mention in the next editorial. A withdrawn article goes straight onto the agenda of the following day's editorial: the paper must explain what went wrong. the charter .