WHOOPS! Vox makes embarrassing typo in tweet on SCOUTS and unions

Someone typed this headline at Vox and didn’t immediately say to themselves, “WTF!”?

https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/1007257618619031552

Because it’s wrong:

https://twitter.com/notwokieleaks/status/1007263492003463168

Like, way wrong:

https://twitter.com/mjaeckel/status/1007265163240771584

Reset the counter!

Someone reset the “Days since we made a mistake” counter to 0 https://t.co/iW1dNiNPvR

— Dennis Walker (@DennisWalkerJr) June 14, 2018

It looks like what happened is Vox mixed up the number from the article:

Not even Vox actually reads Vox. https://t.co/7KhJ3BVZtU

— sAn jose hoCkEy (@billpresson) June 14, 2018

The real number is 21 million, not 117 million:

Screenshot for posterity:

There are only ~22M government employees — including federal, state, and local governments — according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics

Do betterhttps://t.co/VYRylbf2yN pic.twitter.com/VR9cPZgnMM

— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) June 14, 2018

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