Had to block my own aunt on Facebook because she kept sharing obvious bot accounts

Last week my aunt shared this post from an account called 'Health Queen 2024' that was like 'I cured my arthritis with this one weird trick!' and I checked the profile - it was literally posting the same spam in 5 different groups every minute. She got all defensive when I told her it's probably a bot farm from overseas. I spent like 20 minutes trying to explain how to spot fake accounts but she just called me a conspiracy theorist. Anyone else dealing with relatives who can't tell the difference between a real person and a copy-paste machine?

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simon_carr1h ago

lol rip. Sounds like my grandma who still thinks those "Bill Gates wants to give you $500" ads are real. Maybe you can send her a link to that Nigerian prince who's been trying to reach her.