https://twitter.com/TheToadours/status/1...7529549826

JUMPING JACK FLASH IT’S A GAS

The dumbification of America.

Someone relies on the headline of a tweet as "fact" and gets outraged without reading the actual article.

However, State Street denied bosses need special approval when hiring for roles.

A spokesperson said: 'Hiring managers do not need special approval to hire white men. This is factually incorrect.

'We work to ensure a level playing field for candidates of all backgrounds and ensure that our hiring decisions are well informed and not-biased in order to select the best candidate for every job.

'Hiring managers are not required to gain approval for hiring a person of any specific background/characteristics, and we include a process where decisions can be challenged to ensure that a well-informed and unbiased interviewing process has taken place to hire the best person for the job.

The only part that is there that would raise eyebrows is that minority candidates need to be considered when hiring middle management. A Rooney Rule of sort:

Recruiters must now create a panel of four or five people that includes a woman and someone of an ethnic-minority background when hiring middle management staff - employees at vice-president and above.

Ms McNicholas added that the firm will still hire white men, but recruiters will now need to show that women and ethnic minority candidates have been interviewed by the diverse panels, according to The Times.

Hardly as nefarious as the flat out lie that is the tweet.