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A texas student She’s opening up about her “worst nightmare coming true” after a fake social media post claimed she worked as a olive Garden waitress And he was arrested after a video of him throwing breadsticks at customers went viral.
The dramatic story of a 26-year-old man olive Garden The waitress in St. Louis, Missouri, who reportedly threw a basket of breadsticks at a couple after they grabbed her on a tip and yelled “Unlimited breadsticks doesn’t mean unlimited free labor!” Recently it became popular on social media.
Although it’s an incredible story, nothing about it is real – except for the teary eyes mug shot Of a young blonde woman who shared it with him.
Megan Ashley Davis, a student in College Station, Texas, says the backlash she has received over her fake story featuring her real mugshot is ruining her life.
“This is probably my worst nightmare come true,” Davis told the Chron. “People are making very inappropriate comments or AI-generated things with my mug shot.”
Facebook The account “Pure Videos” created the fake post and shared it with its 1.7 million followers. According to Cron, most of the posts on the page are works of fiction. The post featuring Davis’ mugshot appeared to have been removed or made private by Sunday.
Although the post did not include Davis’ name, and the fake story occurred hundreds of miles away, people were still able to track him down and harass him online.
“The people there are disgusting and scary,” he said.
Davis’ mugshot stems from a night out drinking in August, where he was arrested for public intoxication. She is currently a college student who works, and a few weeks before her arrest, her mother died, she told the Chron.
Davis said of the night of her arrest, “I was still very hurt and angry and I didn’t know.” “I think at the time I thought I was OK and then I started drinking, went to jail and that was really embarrassing in itself.”
Although the original post appears to have been removed, copies of it spread across countless accounts on both Facebook and X. Posts are fact-checked only on X and not on Facebook.
“It’s still out there and more content is being created, more things are being said, and I feel ignored, ignored and unheard,” she said.
Earlier this year, in April, Meta, which Facebook owns, stopped using third-party fact-checking in the US, meaning Facebook stopped penalizing fake news. Since then, similar “anger bait” posts with fake stories have spread across the platform like wildfire.
Meanwhile, according to Chron, Olive Garden also attempted to intervene by commenting on a fake post that Davis is not employed by them.
The restaurant chain wrote, “This individual does not work for Olive Garden, and the incident described never happened. The page that originally shared this false story has made similar fake posts involving multiple brands,” though other commenters immediately urged them to “prove it.”
It was not immediately clear when or why the post featuring Davis’ mugshot was removed.
TMC Media, which owns Pure Video on Facebook, did not immediately respond to messages sent Independent.