Tesla CEO Elon Musk has emerged as a champion of defying stay-home orders intended to stop the coronavirus from spreading, picking up support — as well as critics — on social media. Among the supporters was President Donald Trump, who on Tuesday morning tweeted that Tesla's San Francisco Bay Area factory should be allowed to open despite local health department orders that it stay closed except for minimum basic operations. "It can be done fast & safely," the president tweeted, joining many of Musk's 34 million Twitter followers who back the defiance. Among Musk's biggest critics is California Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, who used an expletive to describe the CEO...
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