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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