Corrections

When we get something wrong, we fix it and record it here: the date, the piece, what was wrong and what we changed. The corrected piece carries a note as well. If you think we have made an error, tell us.

2026-10-11 By Israel's own numbers, half of Gaza's ruins had no target and two in three of its dead were not fighters
After a check of the article's sources. The headline said seven in ten of Gaza's dead were not fighters by the army's own count; that set the army's 22,000 combatants at the October 2025 ceasefire against a later toll. The army's count is now more than 24,000, against 74,250 dead, and the share is two in three, as it was at the ceasefire. The article said the army "accepts" a toll of about 70,000; that came from an anonymous briefing which the army's spokesman said was not official data, and the article now says so. An estimate of 20,000 to 23,000 fighters remaining was credited to ACLED; it was reported by Israel's Channel 12, for January 2025. ACLED's own judgment was that Hamas kept at most half its pre-war force. The simulation has been run again on both: chasing fighters explains 4% to 53% of the destroyed buildings, most likely 14% to 17% (it was 5% to 54%, most likely 14%). The army's summary of 2025 was published on 31 December, not 18 December, and its newer total of 65,000 targets limits what it can have struck in the unreported last quarter of 2024: the late-period ratio is 0.34 targets for every newly destroyed building, not 0.36. Soldiers' accounts credited to Haaretz in the methods note are from +972 Magazine and Local Call. The finding that half of the destroyed buildings have no target in the army's count did not change.
2026-10-08 Shut the border and white America still shrinks
After a check against sources: the article said Italians, Irish and Jews were once "counted apart" from America's white majority. They were always counted as white in the census and in law; immigration officials recorded them as separate "races" and many Americans thought of them as lesser kinds of white, and the article now says so. It also said a 2024 federal standard "will" move people out of the white category; agencies have until 2029 to adopt it and the Census Bureau has so far kept the old categories, so it now says "would". The caption of the lead picture on "Does losing a game of chess make you lose the next one?" gave the painting a title and a date range that are not the artist's; it now gives her dates and says the painting is undated.
2026-10-07 Iran war tracker
The Strait of Hormuz gauge showed traffic at 4% of its pre-war level. That figure counted only ships broadcasting their position. Counts that include ships sailing with their transponders off are about three times higher (about 13%), and oil flows have recovered to roughly a third to a half. The gauge now shows all three readings, and the rule for Iran's fifth rung now requires a count that includes those ships. Iran's level did not change.
2026-10-05 What sanctions cost Iranians
After a check of the article's figures against their sources: a forecast that payments for Iranian oil would dry up by mid-December was attributed to Kpler and is now attributed to the Wall Street Journal, which reported it; "Economic D-Day" was described as the president's label and is now described as the administration's; and the estimate of $91bn in physical damage is now given as replacement cost, about half of it military, which lowers our estimate of the loss of productive capacity from 2.4% to about 1% (2.4% at most if weapons are counted).
2026-10-04 Where the wine isn't
After a review of the analysis, the estimate of land suitable for vineyards but not planted fell from 115m to 70m hectares (land already under vines is now excluded), and the estimate of sales forgone fell from $17bn to $16bn a year. The model's accuracy is now reported on farmland only (0.91, not 0.96 on all land).