"Damn ⁦@BurgerKing ⁩I thought this was savage, but I checked [your] account and saw you never posted this."

At 4:27 p.m. on Dec. 9, 2024, a post was uploaded to X (formerly Twitter) from what appeared to be the official account for fast-food giant Burger King, saying, "We don't snitch." The post came the same day an arrest was made in the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Luigi Mangione, 26, was arrested after being spotted by a customer eating at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pa., who then notified an employee.

The move would have been bold and an extreme form of competition, but Burger King didn't actually post, "We don't snitch," on Twitter after Luigi was arrested while eating at a McDonald's.

According to Snopes, the post is fake. The fact-checking website pointed out that the post displayed 2,400 "retweets," 511 "quote tweets," and 18,700 likes, using old terminology from before Elon Musk purchased Twitter and changed the name to X.

Snopes also confirmed there was "no record of the official restaurant's account creating any such posts" and noted that it did not locate any "of the thousands of users who supposedly retweeted or liked the post asking in subsequent posts why the account removed the post."

After someone created a fake tweet from the official Burger King X account suggesting the company doesn't snitch, several X users made a hypothetical list of fast food places that would and wouldn't snitch if it came down to it.

X user @kazzyfrompluto's list of restaurants that wouldn't snitch includes Popeyes, Jack in the Box, Burger King, Church's Chicken, Culver's, Domino's, and Dairy Queen. They also included Arby's but weren't sure it would be dependable in a snitching situation. As for restaurants that would snitch, they listed: Chick-fil-A, Raising Cane's, In-N-Out, Five Guys, Subway, Panda Express, and McDonald's.

X user @ArtBrovera gave their two cents on the restaurants that wouldn't snitch, adding Checkers, Dunkin', and Taco Bell to the list. Another person joked, "McDonald's literally told us our entire childhood that they were snitches. The Hamburglar got caught every single time!"

While the situation involving the shooting of Brian Thompson and Luigi's arrest is no joking matter, people are still finding humor in the fake "We don't snitch" comment from Burger King. One person said, "Someone said Burger King put out a tweet that said "We don't snitch." Real or not, I think it was funny." Burger King has yet to issue a comment on the fake post.