The Redheaded Libertarian
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6629

X community adds a context note to The Redheaded Libertarian post: The Redheaded Libertarian (TRHL) posted a video of a container ship hitting the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore and the bridge subsequently collapsing. In this video taken from TikTok, someone made a video of the news report showing this, and zoomed in on what he characterized as explosions along the top of the bridge as it was collapsing. TRHL asked, "Can an engineer weigh in on this?" The X community added a note to the post that read: "Readers added context they thought people might want to know. The sparks and fire seen in this video are from steel beams breaking at the severance point on the bridge. This break snaps the electrical wires that run at the top of the bridge. There are no signs of explosives or charges being used: usatoday.com/story/news/nat…" The label is part of X’s Community Notes system. X users are able to sign up as contributors to add context to posts. X owner Elon Musk shared that any post with a Community Note added to it will be demonetized. The Community Notes account on X also posted that notices will be pushed to users who previously engaged with a post when a Community Note is added to it later.

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