Social media users shared a range of false claims this week, many of them related to the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge after it was struck by a container ship. Here are the facts: A video said to show a large explosion on the bridge before the structure fell dates to 2022 and has been identified as showing an explosion that caused the partial collapse of the Kerch Bridge, linking Crimea with Russia. The captain of the ship is Indian, not Ukrainian. Angela Chao, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s sister-in-law, who died in a February accident, did not head the company that owns the ship.
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