Compared 2 food poisoning stories on Twitter last week and only one checked out

One post had exact timestamps, hospital receipt, and a lab result for E. coli O157:H7 while the other just said 'got sick from Chipotle' with zero proof, so how do we even trust the viral ones without digging into the details?

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jennifer_jones179d agoMost Upvoted

Did your friend end up deleting the post after his sister outed him? I know a girl from my old neighborhood who pulled something similar last winter, she claimed she got severe food poisoning from a local diner's clam chowder and even posted a blurry photo of an ER bracelet, but the diner's owner actually went through his security footage and saw she ate there but then went home and didn't leave for three days. Someone from her book club finally admitted they saw her buying a cheap pregnancy test at CVS the day before and she was probably trying to cover up a different kind of stomach bug, if you catch my drift.

iris_schmidt9d ago

Someone from her book club finally admitted" killed me, that's such a specific detail that makes the whole thing feel real but also ridiculous. It's wild how people think they can just throw together a story with a random ER bracelet or a blurry photo and everyone will believe it without asking questions. I've noticed this trend where folks act like having any kind of "proof" at all makes something true, even if the proof is flimsy or could easily be faked. It reminds me of how people share those dramatic Facebook posts about finding a needle in their Halloween candy every year, but nobody ever follows up to see if the hospital actually treated anyone. We're so used to believing everything we see online these days that we forget to poke holes in stuff that sounds too convenient.

cole_murphy9d ago

Had a buddy who posted a whole food poisoning story on Facebook last summer. Said he got salmonella from some gas station sushi, had photos of the wrapper and a half eaten roll. Turns out he found the wrapper in his car from two weeks prior and just took a new pic. I only found out because his sister texted me laughing about how he faked the whole thing for sympathy after his girlfriend dumped him. So yeah, people will absolutely lie about that stuff for attention or clout.