diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 47f3c379049b8f..081d51db8c7aaa 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ Library
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 - [Security] bpo-30500: Fix urllib.parse.splithost() to correctly parse
-  fragments. For example, ``splithost('http://127.0.0.1#@evil.com/')`` now
+  fragments. For example, ``splithost('//127.0.0.1#@evil.com/')`` now
   correctly returns the ``127.0.0.1`` host, instead of treating ``@evil.com``
   as the host in an authentification (``login@host``).