Department of Education’s Twitter Account Just Quoted Some Man Named W.E.B. DeBois

One has to wonder if Betsy DeVos has taken over the Department of Education’s Twitter account, because someone just used a W.E.B. Du Bois quote but attributed it to some dude named W.E.B. DeBois.

Now, before you go and blame an intern, nowadays most social media is actually run by full-time staff at government agencies.

Needless to say, people noticed:

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Maybe the social media person had a rough Saturday night?

Update: Look at the “apology”:

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If it makes you feel any better about your coworkers, when Gizmodo wrote about this, they also spelled Du Bois’s name wrong.