> It seems that the article is trying to intentionally mislead its readers to think that those 130M adults don't possess literacy skill in any language that they use, while the underlying study only looks at literacy skill in English.

Yet the article says:

> It's not just people who are racial minorities. It's not just people who speak funny because they're from the South. It literally can be anybody

So maybe it's a matter of some readers trying to intentionally mislead themselves and others about what the article says.