Patriot University is committed to factual accuracy and transparent editorial practices. When we get something wrong, we fix it — and we document the fix so readers can see what changed.

How to Submit a Correction

If you believe any information on Patriot University is incorrect, incomplete, or misleading:

Email: factcheck@patriot.university

Please include:

• The specific claim you believe is incorrect (a URL or article title helps us locate it quickly)
• Your correction — what the accurate information is
• Supporting documentation — a link to the court record, official filing, news report, or other source that supports the correction

Your name is optional. We do not require identification to process a correction.

Our Review Commitment

• All correction submissions are reviewed within 7 days during our current build phase.
• If we determine the correction is substantiated, we update the article and re-publish it promptly.
• If the correction involves a factual error in an accountability profile, we apply the correction and add a factcheck notice to the article documenting what was changed and why.

Factcheck Notice Format

When a substantive correction is made to published content, the corrected article includes a notice in the following format:

Correction [DATE]: [Description of what was corrected and the source of the correct information.]

The notice is placed prominently within the article so readers encountering the content for the first time can see both the corrected information and the fact that a correction was made.

Minor corrections (typos, formatting, broken links) are made without a formal notice.

The Corrections Log

Every substantive correction is also recorded in a single continuously updated public record: the Corrections Log. It lists the date, the document, what was corrected, and the sources supporting the revised material, so the platform’s correction history can be read as a whole rather than one article at a time.

Corrections to legal claims — anything we published about a person’s charges, conviction, court findings, or legal exposure — are listed first, ahead of the chronological record. When we are wrong about someone’s legal exposure, that is the most consequential error we can make, and it is not filed in date order alongside a misspelled county name.

Our publishing pipeline flags a changed factual claim on an already-published document automatically, but no correction is ever recorded on the strength of that flag alone: a human editor reviews and confirms every entry before it appears here or on an article.

Source Attribution Standards

Every factual claim in our content traces to a verifiable source. We follow these citation standards:

For court records and official filings

Court record: [Case name], [Court], [Docket/Case number], [outcome and date].

For journalism and reporting

Source: [Publication], "[Title]," [Date]. [URL if available]

For government documents

Source: [Agency/Body], "[Document title]," [Date]. [URL if available]

Sourcessection at the end listing all referenced materials.Every profile and article includes a numbered

What We Are Transparent About

Our editorial methodology

Our Rules & Editorial Standards document is public. It describes our evidence tier system, prohibited sources, and the principles that govern our content.

Our inclusion criteria

Every accountability profile contains a Basis for Inclusion block that states exactly why that individual has a profile and what is explicitly NOT the basis for inclusion. See Accountability Profiles — Standards FAQ for details.

When content is opinion or analysis

Patriot University publishes both factual reporting (drawn from court records, official documents, and credible journalism) and opinion and analysis. Opinion and analysis pieces are labeled as such so readers can distinguish them from factually documented claims. Accountability profiles are factual records anchored to documented, sourced conduct — not opinion.

Our use of AI

AI tools assist in research, drafting, and analysis. AI-generated content is never treated as “documented” evidence. When data has been inferred, estimated, or AI-generated, it carries a visible provenance indicator. A human editor reviews all published content.

Our deliberation process

When we make close editorial calls — such as whether a federal judge should receive an accountability profile — we document the full deliberation, including arguments for and against, and publish the reasoning alongside our decision. This allows readers to evaluate our judgment and disagree with it on the merits.

What we exclude and why

We maintain a list of excluded sources (databases, taxonomies, and publications that do not meet our evidence standards). When a previously included source is reclassified as excluded, we go back and remove or replace all citations that relied on it.

Data Currency

All content on Patriot University includes a last_updated date. When information may have changed since the article was last reviewed, we note this. Readers should always verify time-sensitive information (such as ongoing legal proceedings) against current primary sources.

Related Documentation

• Corrections Log — The complete record of published corrections
• Rules & Editorial Standards — Overview — Platform-wide editorial standards and evidence tier system
• Accountability Profiles — Standards FAQ — Who gets a profile and why
• Editorial Review & Publishing Process — How content moves from draft to publication
• Legal Framework and First Amendment Protections — Full legal architecture: gates, scoring criteria, skills, and First Amendment defenses

Contact: factcheck@patriot.university