No - just nudge them towards better practices and answer questions they may have. It isn't worth the drama frankly and they are grown adults. >Which subjects spurred the most discussions and how did you solve it? We had one distant family member go off the deep end with 5G vax/google/phone is listening to me. That triggered a family wide discussion on this. Tried injecting some facts, but its quite hard explaining co…
As an example to this, a lot of 9/11 were founded on the "they fell too fast" aspect and "jet fuel doesn't melt steal beams." Both these things are true! The problem is not understanding some basic engineering principles. In this case 1) skyscrapers are have a designed failure mode to collapse in on themselves (and quickly) as to not destroy surrounding buildings if they fail. 2) Jet fuel may not melt steal beams, but it is hot enough that it can cause significant structural weakness, enough that the weight of 1/3rd of a skyscraper will cause said beams to break. Understanding this makes it a far more likely scenario than Bush allies placing hundreds of thermite bombs all around the WTC without anyone noticing.
But the problem is that there was something odd that doesn't fit general knowledge. Knowledge is 100% the cure to conspiracies.
Worse, I think hiding information will just build on the paranoia. Especially with something like data privacy, since we all here work with data. It will turn into "you hid this from me, so you're part of the conspiracy." In that case, it removes all chances that you have. Yes, discussing the nuances of the "conspiracy" can cause people to go a little further off the deepend, but it can also form a bridge between you and that person (as opposed to isolation, which is what most conspiracy theorists do. Put themselves in a bubble). That bridge can be used to lead them out, because they now trust you and you have expertise. It's not easy, but it's something I've personally done.