Common enough error in the US when dealing with square meters abbreviated to sq m. Only off but a factor of 2.6 million.

But yes, it does call into question the rest of the fact checking.

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B1FF_PSUVM 2 hours ago | parent [-]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonia Area • Total 45,335 km2 (17,504 sq mi)

Some people are just oblivious to six orders of magnitude mistakes, and then go off about "folly, mistake, calamitous hubris, neglect, and plain stupidity" ...

	▲	closewith 16 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Assuming this is about Harju, it seems the author read "245 million sq m" and assumed the m was miles, not metres. So the already large 24,500 hectare farm became a ludicrous 245 million square mile multi-planetary behemoth. Reading sq m as square miles is a surprisingly common error in the US, but usually gets caught before production or publication because the result is orders of magnitude out.