Netzpolitik is German so it's definitely a translation error.
The German version has "Neun Minuten, 53 Sekunden, Orgasmus."
The German version has "Neun Minuten, 53 Sekunden, Orgasmus."
4 5 6
1 2 3
your finger slips, what key could it hit?
I think you overestimate the service and work provided by individuals "translating" and copying/posting these articles. Especially cross-copied news articles require high volume output in a short amount of time to be economical. That's why you have so many nonsensical errors in translated articles, especially the ones aimed at click-baiting you. Like putting the name of some random porn provider next to a phrase without providing any meaningful conclusion for example ... oh wait.
What I'm saying is, if machine translation was involved at any step don't expect it to understand the concept of numbers - it just correlates characters that appear in one document with characters that appear in a supposedly equivalent document in the target language, then applies that transformation to what you requested.