Don’t you wish we have a short sell reporting data so we can check if people in the know already shorted the stock?

If it's already in the news, it's already too late to short. News events tend to quickly reverse as well so I'd be looking for a long position at a support level

Unusual whales does a lot of reporting of this nature.

One could also take a look at pages like cheddar which track what they claim is unusual flow in options.