Once news spread of reporters and television camera crews camped out in a Mount Pleasant alleyway, hoping to catch a glimpse of former CIA Director David Petraeus’ purported lover, Paula Broadwell, it didn’t take long for the information to cross the Atlantic.

The Daily Mail is the U.K.’s second-biggest newspaper by daily circulation, but has by far the largest web presence of any news organization in the British Isles and one of the biggest of any paper in the world. But before it next attempts to cannibalize the Broadwell-watch currently in progress on the brick-laid alley behind the 1800 block of Park Road NW, it might do well to consult a map of D.C.’s neighborhoods. Check out this passage:

On Tuesday night, she was seen taking refuge at a house owned by her brother, Stephen Kranz, in the Petworth suburb of Washington D.C.

That last clause has two factual errors sure to make any D.C. geography buff declare “HEAD EXPLODES.” While those armchair cartographers are scooping up their scattered brain matter, we’d helpfully remind the Mail that Broadwell’s brother lives in Mount Pleasant, which lies to the southwest of Petworth. Also, Petworth is not a suburb. It used to be, but not since the 1880s, when the town of Petworth in Washington County (i.e., the District north of Florida Avenue) was absorbed into the city.

Then again, the Mail proudly cuts it fast and loose when covering U.S. affairs of state. In an April profile of the paper in The New Yorker, the Mail’s online editor, Martin Clarke, told Lauren Collins as much:

The site evolved on the fly. “We just decided to go hell-for-leather for ratings,” someone who was involved in the launch told me. “Anything relating to climate change, American politics, Muslims—we just chased the numbers very ruthlessly.”

But the strategy has paid off. The Daily Mail’s website is the 122nd most popular site in the world of any kind. Even if it is using a 19th-century atlas when writing about our city.