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You Are Part of How This Works
Baynes World is a one-person newsroom covering a very large internet. No single person can catch everything. Reader tips have already shaped coverage on this site — a claim spotted by someone scrolling their feed at midnight, sent in the next morning, turned into a fact-check that reached thousands of people.
If you see something that doesn’t add up, send it. That is not a courtesy invitation. It is how this operation is supposed to work.
This page has two sections:
- Submit a Tip — you spotted something that needs investigating
- Submit a Correction — you think we got something wrong
Both matter. Both get looked at seriously.
Submit a Tip
Got a viral claim that needs checking?
A post spreading fast on X that seems off. A statistic getting repeated everywhere that nobody seems to have sourced. A video that looks real but feels staged. A politician saying something today that directly contradicts something they said on the record two years ago. A story that every outlet is covering the same way and you’re not sure any of them actually looked at the primary source.
Send it.
What makes a good tip:
- A link to the original post, article, or video you want checked
- A brief note on why you think it needs scrutiny — what smells off, what claim is being made, what you think might be missing
- Any sources you’ve already found, if you went looking
You don’t need to have done the research. That’s our job. You just need to have spotted something worth looking at.
Tips go to: tips@baynesworld.com
Or use the form at the bottom of this page and select “Story Tip” from the dropdown.
If your tip involves sensitive material:
Standard email is not encrypted. If you are submitting something sensitive — a document, a source, internal communications, anything where confidentiality matters — contact us before you send anything so we can discuss secure methods.
For sensitive tips:
- Signal: (add your Signal number if you have one set up)
- ProtonMail: (add your ProtonMail address if you set one up — free at proton.me)
We take source protection seriously. If you ask for confidentiality, we will discuss the parameters of what that means before you submit anything.
What happens after you submit a tip:
We read every tip that comes in. Not every tip becomes a fact-check — some claims don’t meet our selection criteria, some are already being investigated, and some turn out to be verifiable with a quick search and don’t need a full article. But we read them all.
If your tip leads to a published fact-check, we will credit you as “a Baynes World reader” unless you ask to be credited by name. We will never credit you without asking first.
We cannot guarantee a response to every tip, particularly during heavy news cycles. If something is urgent and time-sensitive, say so in the subject line.
Submit a Correction
Think we got something wrong?
Good. Tell us.
We publish corrections publicly and prominently — at the top of the affected article, in bold, with the date. We do not quietly edit text and pretend the error never happened. If we got something wrong, the correction is more visible than the original mistake, not less.
But we only correct what the evidence shows is wrong. We do not change coverage based on pressure, political objection, or someone being unhappy with a verdict. We change coverage based on documented evidence. If you have the receipts, we will look at them. If the receipts hold up, we will correct the record.
What to include in a correction request:
- The article URL — link to the specific piece you believe contains an error
- The specific claim — quote the exact sentence or section you believe is wrong, not just a general complaint about the article’s conclusion
- Your evidence — a primary source, document, official record, or credible reporting that contradicts what we published. “I don’t think that’s right” is not a correction request. A government document, court record, or verified source that contradicts our reporting is.
The more specific you are, the faster we can investigate. Vague objections to our conclusions are not the same as documented factual errors, and we will treat them differently.
Corrections go to: corrections@baynesworld.com
Or use the form at the bottom of this page and select “Correction Request” from the dropdown.
What happens after you submit a correction:
We investigate every substantive correction request. Here is the process:
- We review the claim you’ve identified and pull the original sources we used
- We evaluate your evidence against ours
- If your evidence is stronger, we correct the article publicly and prominently — the correction goes at the top with the date, the original error is acknowledged, nothing is hidden
- If our evidence holds up, we will explain why and what we found
- Either way, we respond to correction requests that include specific claims and documentary evidence
We aim to respond to correction requests within 72 hours of receipt. During breaking news periods, it may take longer.
One important clarification:
Disagreeing with our verdict is not the same as identifying a factual error. If you believe our verdict on a claim was wrong, tell us — and tell us specifically what evidence we missed or misread. That is a legitimate challenge and we will look at it seriously. But “I think this should have been rated False, not Misleading” without new evidence is an opinion about our judgment, not a documented error. We will engage with it, but we will not treat it as a correction.
What We Will Not Do
To be direct about what submitting here does and does not accomplish:
We will not publish corrections that are themselves inaccurate — if someone submits a “correction” that is factually wrong, we will explain why we are not running it
We will not change a verdict because someone important complained
We will not retract accurate coverage because it reflects badly on a public figure, a political party, or anyone else
We will not reveal confidential sources
We will not respond to legal threats through this form — those go to legal@baynesworld.com and are handled separately
Our Commitment
We built this page because accountability without a mechanism is just a claim. The Impartiality Pledge says we will correct mistakes publicly. The methodology page says we will show all of our work. This page is where those promises become actionable.
We will not always agree with what you send us. We will always take it seriously.
— Roe Baynes · Founder, Baynes World
Tips and corrections submitted here are handled by Roe Baynes directly. Response times vary. Urgent tips should be marked as such in the subject line or message.
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