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My mum is just a bit lib brained in some ways (nuclear power and drug policy mainly). She is on the phone but she is usually just reading newspapers, fairly lib ones. The only thing she does on Facebook is congratulate family members on their birthdays etc. I am able to influence her as I keep being right about stuff before the news are willing to admit it (stuff like Russia bombing their own pipeline being ridiculous).
My older brother is just a lib, but whatever. He has an incredibly low risk of being radicalised.
My younger brother has had mental breakdowns and believes he is being gangstalked and is generally conspiracy brained, but that doesn’t have much to do with the internet.
Dad is dead, but he was just a prick. Not the online kind.
I only encounter the deep end conspiracy theorists at work, where I’ve had my kind of superior tell me in hushed tones that Obama is going to start a civil war a couple of weeks ago to stop Trump being inaugurated (note that he is Swedish).