South Carolina 'will no longer educate children,' according to governor's social media fail

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) on Monday learned the perils of automatically cross-posting messages from one social media account to another when this botched tweet went out into the world:

No, the state isn't shuttering all its schools. Rather, the sentence was an unfortunately clipped version of a longer message posted to Haley's Instagram that said the state would "no longer educate children based on where they are born."

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