Viral video says Atchafalaya bridge columns are failing. But the scenes weren’t in Louisiana.

A video spreading widely on social media purports to show support columns for the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge, which carries Interstate 10 between Baton Rouge and Lafayette, crumbling into the swamp — but the structures aren’t in Louisiana, state officials say.

The video, shared on Instagram by an account “601andpark” shows a person on a boat pointing out support columns that appear to have badly degraded. As of late Tuesday morning, the post had 26,000 likes and more than 2,000 comments, many of them raising concern or outrage about the state of the bridge…

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