Conspiracy Theories Emerge: Unfounded Claims Circulate About Riverside Incident

Weba familiar pattern played out in the hours following tuesday's bridge collapse in baltimore:

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Webin the hours and days that followed, a barrage of baseless claims flooded social media, pointing fingers at various unlikely culprits and triggering a wave of misinformation.

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Webeven before most americans woke up tuesday morning to news of the collapse of the francis scott key bridge in baltimore, wild conspiracy theories about what supposedly had “really” happened.

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Weboutlandish conspiracy theories circulated on x after a containership collided with a major bridge in maryland, causing it to collapse, early tuesday morning.

The ship hit a supporting structure.

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