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On 19 December 2017, comedian Rosie O'Donnell touched off a controversy when she tweeted an offer to pay two Republican senators $2 million each to vote against passage of a GOP tax reform bill: Although O'Donnell's tweet seemed to be a bit of political discourse intended to make a point rather than a genuine offer, right-wing critics quickly proclaimed that the comedian had committed the illegal act of offering a bribe to public officials. Shortly afterwards, various disreputable web sites attempted to cash in on the brouhaha by pushing out fake news articles under fabricated clickbait headlines proclaiming that O'Donnell had actually been arrested by federal authorities on bribery charges: None of those reports was true. The entertainer was not taken into custody or charged with any crime and remains at large and tweeting prolifically, as always.
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