Drinking Bleach, Twitter, and Fake News Unfolding in Real Time

Cropped image taken from https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/

As I write this, a story is spreading through Twitter and Reddit that there are three people in an ED because they drank bleach in responses to Trump’s galling press conference in which he suggested that injecting disinfectant may be a way to treat COVID-19.

I have good news and bad news. The good news: this story is almost certainly fake. The bad news…