Yahoo! Finance published one of the most unfortunate typos perhaps in the history of American journalism on Thursday, and left the tweet posted for long enough to amass thousands of retweets before deleting it.
The news site was promoting a story, titled “Trump Wants A Much Bigger Navy: Here’s How Much It’ll Cost,” regarding President-elect Donald Trump’s intentions to boost the size of the U.S. Navy.
But instead of writing “bigger,” well, you can figure out the rest.
Overnight, and after at least 2,800 retweets, Yahoo Finance deleted the tweet.
Republican consultant Rick Wilson brought attention to the error, noting at the time, “Amazingly, this tweet is still up.”
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