There’s a fabulous correction in the New York Times at the moment

A New York Times journalist accidentally left on a Chrome extension that swaps text around and it made one of the great publishing mistakes of all time:

Correction: March 7, 2018
Because of an editing error involving a satirical text-swapping web browser extension, an earlier version of this article misquoted a passage from an article by the Times reporter Jim Tankersley. The sentence referred to America’s narrowing trade deficit during “the Great Recession,” not during “the Time of Shedding and Cold Rocks.” (Pro tip: Disable your “Millennials to Snake People” extension when copying and pasting.)

And the uncorrected text in full:

okay but the original reading of it would have been this, which is CERTIFIED PLATINUM pic.twitter.com/1cdRnfVrbf

— Melanie Schmitz (@MelsLien) March 7, 2018

If you want to install the snake people extension then be our guest.

Source: Twitter/@jswatz