Just had the strangest experience, me and my housemate were putting out the bins. Some lady with a dog comes up to us, telling us to check Facebook. Did you all know that according to her multiple sources “750000 doctors and such” have come out and said that the crp tests...(1/5)

can’t detect the coronavirus? And the cure to all our sicknesses; cancer, bad nutrition, Covid etc is a plant called moringa? I was informed you can make a tea out of it. Anyone who knows me, knows I have a morbid interest in disinformation and social media...(2/5)

but it was jarring to have it spouted to me in person right outside my home. Now, this lady was obviously a little bit lonely, but she looked normal enough she could have been anyone’s slightly eccentric relative (we all have them)... (3/5)

If you haven’t already, I’d recommend having a chat with your older relatives about not trusting everything you see on social media. What seemed to set this lady down the rabbit hole was some underlying health issues that doctors, in her mind, had failed to help her with...(4/5)

So, she looked for reassurance from where ever she could. Unfortunately, she seems to have found it on Facebook. (5/5)