Viral misinformation presented as fact, with no inline fact-check
Pain point
Hero-narrative posts spread with fabricated causality; users have to do the debunking manually and resent the platform for rewarding it.
Signal
Strong. 17.3K-upvote post whose **top comment is the debunk** at 5.4K ("six seconds of basic research"), plus "[citation needed]" (750) and a meta-complaint about platform quality (114). This is a structural, recurring pattern rather than a single thread.
Opportunity
Browser extension / API that overlays a "claim confidence" badge on viral social posts, sourced from an LLM + citation-retrieval pipeline, surfacing the top debunking comment to the top. Monetize via B2B API to forums and news aggregators rather than consumers. Feasibility: **medium-hard** (accuracy liability, needs a corpus).
Evidence
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