TOPLINE
Despite overwhelming popular support for stay-at-home orders, there has been a strong push online to end lockdown measures—which one study found has been driven largely by bots.
KEY FACTS
An AP-NORC poll released Thursday shows 60% of Americans support a continued ban on non-essential movement, while 69% support bans on gatherings of more than 10 people.
Nonetheless, there’s been a surge of support on Twitter and other social media sites for ending lockdown measures and reopening America, a new study from researchers at Carnegie Mellon finds.
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