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Conspiracists and far-right extremists blame almost everything and everyone for Tuesday morning’s event. Baltimore Bridge Collapse.
A non-exhaustive list of things blamed for the bridge collapse on Telegram and X includes President Biden, Hamas, ISIS, P. Diddy, Nickelodeon, India, former President Barack Obama, Islam, aliens, Sri Lanka, the world economy. Forum, the United Nations, the awakening, Ukraine, foreign aid, the CIA, the Jewish people, Israel, Russia, China, Iran, Covid vaccines, DEI, immigrants, black people and lockdowns.
Francis Scott Key truss bridge collapsed when he MV Dali The freighter collided with one of the bridge supports. Six construction workers, who were filling potholes in the bridge’s roadway at the time, were presumed dead. The ship is owned by Singapore-based Grace Ocean Private Ltd., and the crew of 22 was all Indian. The ship was heading to Colombo, Sri Lanka, at the time of the accident.
This did not stop people from “asking questions” about the incident, a common conspiratorial response to major events. And while conspiracy theorists find it difficult to determine exactly which conspiracy caused the collapse, the one thing they do agree on is that this incident is a “black swan event.”
The term black swan event It has been around for decades and is used to describe a major global event (usually in financial markets) that can cause significant damage to a country’s economy. But in recent years, the term has been adopted by conspiracy-minded people to explain an event triggered by the so-called deep state that would signal an imminent revolution, a third world war, or some other apocalyptic catastrophe.
One of the first people to call the bridge collapse a black swan event was former US national security adviser Michael Flynn. “This is a BLACK SWAN event,” he wrote on in charge of ensuring the safety of navigation…start there.” Flynn’s post has been viewed 7.2 million times.
The misogynistic influencer Andrew Tate, who has been accused in Romania of rape and human trafficking, also posted on X early Tuesday morning and wrote: “Nothing is certain. The Black Swan event is imminent.” The post has been viewed almost 19 million times.
The term black Swan It quickly started trending on
A post claiming a link between the bridge collapse and the film Leave the world behind It has been viewed more than 1.2 million times. The publication claimed that because the ship was headed to Sri Lanka, which has a lion on its flag, the situation was related to the circling ship at the beginning of the film that was called White Lion. The publication also notes that the film was produced by Obama.
