Woman breaks silence after viral post labels her Olive Garden waitress using breadsticks for revenge on diners. It was a fake
A. Texas student She says her “worst nightmare came true” after she posted a fake social media post claiming to work as a Olive Garden Waiter and his arrest went viral after he threw bread crumbs at customers.
The dramatic story of a 26-year-old young man Olive Garden St. In St. Louis, Missouri, he allegedly threw a basket of breadsticks at a couple who tipped him and shouted, “Unlimited breadsticks do not mean unlimited free labor!” The waiter allegedly shouted. It has recently been on the rise on social media.
Although it makes for an incredible story, none of it is true except for those who are teary-eyed. mugshot A photo of a young blonde woman shared next to it.
Megan Ashlee Davis, a College Station, Texas, student, says the backlash she received over the fake story featuring her real mugshot has ruined her life.
“Probably like my worst nightmare come true.” Davis told the Chron. “People are making very inappropriate comments or doing AI-generated things with my mugshot.”
Texas woman says her mugshot was used as part of a fake “rage trap” story spread on social media, leading to her being harassed by online trolls (Pure Videos/Facebook)
Facebook The “Pure Videolar” account created the fake post and shared it with its 1.7 million followers. According to Chron, most of the posts on the page are works of fiction. It was revealed that the post containing Davis’ mugshot had been removed or made private as of Sunday.
Even though Davis’ name was not included in the post and the fake story occurred hundreds of miles away, people were still able to stalk and harass her online.
“People are disgusting and scary there,” he said.
Davis’ mugshot stems from an arrest for public intoxication on a night out drinking in August. He’s currently a working college student and told the Chron that his mother died a few weeks before his arrest.
“I was still so hurt and angry and I don’t know,” Davis said of the night he was arrested. “I guess I thought I was okay at the time and then I started drinking no matter what, I ended up in jail and it was really embarrassing.”
Although the original post appears to have been removed, copies of it have spread across numerous accounts on both Facebook and X. The post was fact-checked only on X, not on Facebook.
“This person does not work for Olive Garden and the incident described never occurred,” Olive Garden said in response to the online hoax. (Getty)
“It’s still out there and more content is being created, more things are being said and I feel overlooked, unseen and unheard,” she said.
Earlier this year, in April, Meta, which owns Facebook, stopped using third-party verification in the US, meaning Facebook stopped punishing fake news. Since then, similar “rage trap” posts containing fake stories have spread like wildfire on the platform.
Meanwhile, according to the Chron, Olive Garden even tried to intervene by commenting on one of the fake posts claiming that Davis was not employed by them.
“This person does not work for Olive Garden and the incident described never happened. The page that originally shared this false story has posted similar hoaxes involving multiple brands,” the restaurant chain wrote, but other commenters quickly called on them to “prove it.”
It was not immediately clear when or why the post featuring Davis’ mugshot was removed.
TMC Media, which owns Pure Videos on Facebook, did not immediately respond to messages sent by it. Independent.
