for being skeptical and asking (I must be doing something right). My answer was "Meta is one of the biggest companies in the world. Do you think their official policy for something like this would be having teenagers pass the message amongst their friends and copy paste it to their story?" She thought about it for like 2 seconds and said "no, that would be dumb".
It's incredible that in 2024, with all that we know about disinformation and straight up lying on social media that so many people still believe pretty much everything they read. I hate that our society has become one where you should assume everything is false until proven otherwise, but here we are.