Have major corrections or retractions been issued for Rachel Maddow's international segments in the last five years?

1. Records and lawsuits: the OAN dispute is the clearest public episode

The one item in these search results that comes closest to a sustained dispute over Maddow’s reporting concerns a July 2019 segment in which she referenced reporting that One America News employed a journalist also on Sputnik’s payroll; OAN sued for defamation, demanded a retraction, and the lawsuit was dismissed by a federal judge in 2020 who found Maddow’s statements were opinion rather than provably false fact ^{[1] [4]}. That litigation is visible in the dataset, but it predates the five‑year window you asked about and the dismissal means the court did not order retraction or correction ^{[1] [4]}.

2. What the program and archive material show (and do not show)

MSNBC’s Maddow blog and show pages in the supplied results focus on programming, podcasts and awards—new series announcements, episode guides and promotions ^{[2] [3] [5]}. Those pages and the archived episode listings included here do not show formal corrections or retraction notices tied to international segments over the last five years; available sources do not mention any such corrections in the provided archives ^{[2] [3]}.

3. Independent fact‑checking trail from the supplied sources

PolitiFact and other fact‑checking or news‑aggregating sources are listed in the results ^[6], but the provided snippets do not include any PolitiFact rulings that identify or document corrections/retractions of Maddow’s international reporting during 2020–2025. Therefore, based on the returned items, there is no documented sequence of fact‑checker‑led reversals for Maddow’s foreign‑policy segments in the supplied set ^[6]. If you want a definitive catalog of fact‑check rulings, further targeted searches of PolitiFact, AP, Reuters or MSNBC corrections pages would be needed; those are not present in this dataset.

4. Broader newsroom context and precedent in the dataset

The results include examples of other MSNBC hosts issuing retractions in earlier years (an unrelated 2019 Lawrence O’Donnell retraction is cited in the collection), which shows the network has in some instances corrected errors when disputes arise ^[7]. That precedent indicates corrections can occur at MSNBC, but the supplied material does not link such action to Maddow’s international segments over the last five years ^[7].

5. Limitations and what’s not in our sources

The supplied search results cover show pages, podcast listings, a prominent 2020 court ruling tied to a 2019 segment, and general profiles, but they do not include a dedicated catalog of MSNBC or Rachel Maddow corrections, nor do they include comprehensive fact‑check databases or a corrections feed for the 2020–2025 period ^{[2] [3] [1]}. Therefore: available sources do not mention any major corrections or retractions for Maddow’s international segments in the last five years, but that conclusion is limited to the dataset you provided and does not rule out corrections reported elsewhere ^{[1] [2]}.

6. How to confirm more thoroughly

To confirm definitively, consult MSNBC’s official corrections/errata pages and Maddow’s archived show transcripts, fact‑checking sites such as PolitiFact, FactCheck.org and AP’s corrections, and legal databases for any litigation or settlement language that required retractions. Those sources are not included in the current results and would fill the evidence gap left by the supplied dataset ^{[6] [2]}.

If you want, I can run targeted searches of MSNBC correction pages, PolitiFact rulings, AP corrections and news databases for 2020–2025 to produce a definitive list; the current collection does not contain that material ^{[2] [6] [1]}.