The public log of every time we got something wrong.
Trust in finance writing requires showing your mistakes, not hiding them. A site that has never published a correction is either brand new, lying, or both. Money Molecule is brand new today — but the commitment is that when the first mistake makes it through, you’ll see it here.
This page logs substantive factual errors — broken figures, outdated numbers we didn’t catch in the annual refresh, calculator bugs that produced wrong outputs, claims that turned out not to hold up against the cited source. Typo fixes, broken-link repairs, and minor copyedits don’t belong here and won’t be logged.
How corrections work.
When a substantive error is reported, or when we catch one ourselves, three things happen:
- We fix the article. The number, the claim, or the calculator output is corrected against the primary source.
- We add a dated note at the bottom of that article. The note says what was wrong, what we changed, and when. The original wording stays referenced so the edit isn’t invisible.
- We add an entry to this log. With the date, the affected page, and a one-line summary so the pattern of mistakes is visible across the whole site, not just inside the article that had the mistake.
When the same topic produces repeated corrections — say, three errors on a single state’s tax page — that page gets flagged for editorial review and the underlying source process gets re-examined.
Reporting an error.
Email info@moneymolecule.com with:
- The page URL.
- The specific claim or number you think is wrong.
- A source for the correct answer, if you have one (a link to irs.gov, canada.ca, or another primary source is ideal).
We respond to every report within three business days — even when the report turns out to be wrong. A reply explaining why the original was right counts as a real answer, not a brush-off.
See the full process at editorial standards.
The log.
Currently empty.
No corrections have been issued yet. When the first one is, it will appear here, dated, with the article it affects and what changed. Empty today does not mean perfect — it means new. Help us find the things we missed: info@moneymolecule.com.
Email info@moneymolecule.com to report a problem.