Corrections Policy

Disclosed Capitol publishes a mix of automatically-ingested government data and editorially-written analysis. We make mistakes. When we do, this page describes how we fix them.

What we correct

We treat the following as errors and issue a correction or a clarification:

• Misidentified politicians, tickers, or transactions (wrong member, wrong company, wrong direction of trade, wrong amount range).
• Calculation mistakes in derived metrics (returns, CAGR, alpha, portfolio totals) that are caused by our own code, not by the underlying filings.
• Errors in editorial text — articles, methodology notes, and explainer pages — including factual mistakes, broken citations, and misleading framing.
• Missing or out-of-date disclosures that we should have ingested by now.

What we do not change silently

Substantive corrections are noted on the page itself. We do not retroactively edit a data field or article to make a past statement look right. If we changed our mind, the page says when and why.

Source-side errors

Some errors originate in the source filings themselves. When a member of Congress files an amended Periodic Transaction Report, we ingest the amendment and supersede the prior row. The original row is retained internally; the display reflects the latest disclosed values. When a source body removes or modifies a record (the House Clerk or Senate Office of Public Records), we follow suit and note the change.

How to report an error

Email admin@disclosedcapitol.com with the URL of the page in question and a short description of what you believe is wrong. Citations to primary sources (the underlying PTR PDF, an SEC filing, a Congress.gov record) move things faster.

Response time

We aim to acknowledge corrections within two business days and to issue a fix or a written explanation within five. Data-pipeline fixes that require a backfill may take longer; we will say so in the acknowledgement.

Related policies

• Editorial standards — how we source, write, and review editorial content.
• Methodology — how derived metrics are calculated.
• Data sources — which primary filings power the site.