I could claim that I wasn't sucked in, although I would need to provide some evidence to back that claim, e.g. if I had made a post saying "this sounds bad, but let's wait for some more details so we know what really happened here".
What I find interesting is that the post from ElizaFox implicitly claims that Eliza was not "sucked in". I doubt that there is a post providing evidence for this. We just need to accept Eliza's wisdom on this issue.
Eliza goes further and suggests that there is "propaganda" about the dangers of so-called smart devices. I don't think this is the case, I think there is legitimate concern, but there is also broad ignorance about the technology. When you think about it, the toothbrushes aren't that smart (yet), the malware would have to be in the apps which connect the toothbrushes to the internet. Malware in apps is not novel. The toothbrush thing, on the other hand, is an eye-catching headline for the legacy media, a clickbait opportunity for new media, and the sort of thing that people might share on social media, before they learn it was a hypothetical scenario which was misunderstood and/or misrepresented, not a claim of an actual event.
Weirdly, ElizaFox's retrospective claim of wisdom is another form of clickbait. Sharing her post is quite possibly a manifestation of the phenomenon she ascribes to a far-right chud. "Join me in being one of the clever ones. You've heard of Big Tech and Big Pharma, but now we have to stop Big Skepticism".
I would have been tempted to make a comment to that effect on Eliza's feed, but it is so prolific, with many posts and boosts per hour, I couldn't be bothered wading through it. I have noticed a few other specious mastodon accounts like this. I suspect their owners have been trained by the algorithms of twitter et al to seek the embiggening sensation of "engagement".