Facebook Spreads Conspiracy Theories Soon After Charlottesville Amtrak Crash

One hundred Republican lawmakers and their staff ran into a truck outside Charlottesville. The news quickly spread to Facebook.by Katie HerzogAn Amtrak train carrying 100 GOP lawmakers to a retreat in West Virginia crashed on Wednesday.Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Shortly after an Amtrak train carrying 100 Republican lawmakers and their staff ran into a truck outside Charlottesville, Virginia, on Wednesday morning, the news made its way onto Facebook. There, fake news posts and rumors that the crash