Today's offering, taken from an email from the Telegraph about an IT glitch in its subscriber routine, contains a range of issues relating to clarity of expression, mainly connected to the failure to have the pronouns agree in number with the nouns to which they supposedly relate. Thus both the Technical Team and the subscribers are represented by the plural 'they', making it seem that it is the subscribers, not the technicians, who are running the tests. Then there's the fact that the subscribers, being referred to as 'that' rather than 'who', seem to have been stripped of humanity.
However, the star mangle occurs in the final line:
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