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Coding error?
It's a website.
And are you telling me a government website isn't using some sort of logging system? You got white house employees checking people in bathrooms.
Playing devil's advocate here: most websites are generated by programs, so it's possible it could be a coding error. That said, for it to plausibly be a coding error in whatever generator they're using, they'd have to store the Constitution with each paragraph in a separate file. That's the only way I could possibly see a "coding error" exclude the stuff that was excluded.
Edit: That is to say, obviously it is not a coding error. The text of the Constitution would be stored in one file because 1. that makes sense, and 2. storing per paragraph would add to overhead. And stuff in the middle of files doesn't just get deleted by a coding error.
Do you know of anything else missing? If it was a "code" error, like in a Drupal site or something it would likely delete other stuff. Most U.S. government websites are modernized during the Obama administration or newer. This stuff doesn't happen due to code.
The text/tweet/whatever really feels just like made up words to convince non technically literate people it was a mistake.
It did delete more than the lines that most of the news articles mention. When I looked at the diff, the missing text seemed so arbitrary and wide in scope that a technical error was completely plausible. It made the news articles seem totally sensationalized.
Oh yeah I saw. Really feels like someone just looked at a paragraph and selected until the editor wouldn't let them anymore.