She keeps texting me propaganda filled with fake news!

You can actually select not to see her posts on fb but still remain friends, she wouldn't even know x

Sad Everyone’s brains are full of information these days and having to decide true or false comment or not but my position is not to comment on religion and politics only way forward and I tell anyone who asks me what do you think about this happening Good luck with helping your friend see your perspective!!

On fb you can snooze someone for a period of time. I have someone on fb who is also constantly posting conspiracy theories. Several at a time. But, like you, I didnt want to unfriend her. So I snoozed her. Dont know how you can deal with it if she is phone texting you, other than just deleting them as they come.

There is an option on Facebook to unfollow a person but still remain “friends” if you do that you won’t get the annoying posts but she won’t know.
Maybe just delete any texts she sends unread.

I sympathise. I have a close friend who I speak to on the phone several times a week. Since lockdown she has been talking a lot about the conspiracy theories she believes. I find it nonsense and it's very hard to explain that I don't agree when she is telling me more and more about it. It seems she thinks I am naive for not believing.

Do not engage with her by text. On Facebook, mute her for 30 days, and then another 30. "Did you receive that?" "Yes" "Why didn't you comment?" "Not interested".

Why don't you just explain that you're feeling overwhelmed with everything and that you find it hard to cope with any more input. Ask her to stop as a kindness and I'm sure she'll respond positively.

Can you thank her but say as you're cutting back on social media because it's all so depressing, could she not include you on her video-share list please?

stop replying or responding in any way

I have a friend who does almost the same but on FB. I would just delete the texts or send her a text saying you are so fed up with all the political war mongering and false news that seems to be going on that you would appreciate if she excluded you from sharing any such news. Obviously happy to have family etc news. For FB just delete and confirm you don't want to receive messages from wherever she is forwarding from eg AQZ news channel. It's so annoying.

Honestly, as this lady is the wife of your husband's cousin - I'd block or de-friend. If communication is needed she can go through him. Her connection to you is too distant to keep up unless you enjoy each other - and you don't.

I have exactly the same problem ! A friend keeps sending me this kind of stuff. Today’s effort is -apparently- the Coronavirus is all made up. It’s a plot to get rid of the old and the vulnerable. She’s asking me to join some group against Bill Gates vaccination!!! I don’t even know what she’s talking about. I hide all her posts on fb but somehow this one slipped through.

I had two ‘friends’ on Facebook who constantly posted what they were having for breakfast/lunch/dinner so I just muted them without unfriending them or saying anything. Another not very close friend bombarded me and others daily on WhatsApp and email with topics she found interesting - badly scanned newspaper articles I couldn’t even read, cute pet videos, fake news - so I blocked her on WhatsApp and just ignore her emails. Not responding does seem to have had some effect. I’d much prefer it if she just sent me a little personal news occasionally, not a nonsense round-robin item sent to 15 people, but I don’t know that I can change her so non-engagement seems best! Some people shouldn’t be let loose on social media because they don’t know how to respect boundaries. It’s sad really.

She probably sends them as a block to everyone. Really irritating but on Twitter you can Mute people and on Facebook you can un-follow. I have a niece who does the same - she's up to here in conspiracy garbage. I did once say that I really didn't think I'd get my scientific beliefs from an ex Leicester City footballer who thinks we're basically lizards but preferred people with relevant qualifications. She still posts stuff but I don't read them.

Just don’t answer...the more you do the more she keep sending them.

Ignore them. I have a friend who went through a phase of emailing me petitions to sign every day - sometimes 15 or 20 in a day. (She has little else to do but find and sign petitions every day in their dozens.) At first I used to sign a few to please her and comment on them sometimes to her. But when it got ridiculous I just ignored them and gradually she stopped sending them.

If this is on FB its very easy not to see her stuff...just hit the 'unfollow' button and edit your settings...go onto her profile & where it says friends comes up a list...one of which is restricted...that means you won't see her posts and she cant see yours but you are still friends Simples

Might be good to listen to David Icke rather than delete him
I’ve followed him for years
So much he’s said has come about He has great interviews on London Real It’s not, in my view, conspiracy it’s very real
Just takes a brave person like him to face the truth of what’s really happening in our world

oh david icke ha ha ha.
trouble is everyone's truth is different!!

Just tell her to stop...simple really. If she can't respect your wishes then do block her but tell her you have to do this as she refuses to comply with your wishes. It will be her choice then not yours.

I felt' exhausted' just thinking about this relative of yours and the effect she has on you. I go along with responding to what you feel worth responding to. She will eventually, give it time, get the message she doesn't have you in her audience when it comes to fake messages / conspiracies and 'button up'.

Yes, like Bluebelle said..just tell her your're not going to read anything political etc in future so please dont send them, but you'll be happy to hear about family & friends...maybe no one else will listen to her on those scores either so she's just letting off steam& ranting, same as you've just done, and feels like you're the only one who will listen, and she can 'safely' share all that stuff with you?she must see you as a friend too maybe, not just her husbands cousins wife? Just be kind but firm and honest with her, tell her you're happy to hear from her, but only family stuff or a chat as a friend, but you don't want to hear the other more political stuff as your're not interested in it.And that anyway theres enough of that in the papers so you have had enough!

You could always reply with a link to show her unwanted messages are fake news. That generally shuts up people who enjoy focussing on the negatives in life.

My 17yr old used to come to me every day at the start of the covid19 outbreak, and give me all the 'news' about what was happening, so much so he'd come do it when i was on phone to his older siblings too, so we in our family dubbed him the propaganda merchant & i started watching the BBC cororonavirus update, so when he came spouting the news of it i used to tell him they'd just said different on there, so eventually he's stopped doing it..i think it was his way of making sure i got all the info to stay safe maybe

But if OP blocks certain messages she wont get the family news stuff either will she? best to just be honest with her.