What's that saying?
a lie can spread around the world before the truth can get it's pants on?Googled it
It can go back as far as Virgil
"
Fama, malum qua non aliud velocius ullum."
"‘Rumour, than whom no other evil thing is faster.’ ."
but most commonly attributed to Churchill
"‘
a lie is halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on’"
So there...
In the mean time... Damage done