Bot Army Behind 'Reopen America' Push On Social Media, Study Finds

[spinbaby]

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.

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.

The study analyzed over 200 million tweets in support of ending shutdown measures and found that 34% of accounts generating such content are “definitely bots,” while another 32% are “possibly humans with bot assistants.”

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2020/05/22/bot-army-behind-reopen-america-push-on-social-media-study-finds/#78bf948d39b2

[tanyev]

1. Just as organic and spontaneous as the Tea Party was.

And the media eats it up.

[roamer65]

2. Russian agitprop operation?

Sure sounds like it.

[JI7]

5. Considering Russia is suffering from Covid 19 I guess Putin is going to continue

to focus on destroying the US and other places instead of actually trying to improve conditions in his country.

[not_the_one]

3. Astroturf by the same usual characters.

They are anything BUT grassroots.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. How many corporate tv "news" programs report this when they feature protesters?

[Brainfodder]

6. 31% continue to be selfish assholes, got it!

Nothing new to see here?