Bot/astroturf pollution making online spaces unusable
Pain point
Community owners drowning in bot traffic; readers can't tell what's organic; nobody can verify whether engagement is real.
Signal
Strong and multi-angle in a 12.5K post: moderation pain *"1000s of messages from bots arguing back and forth... it was SO MUCH"* (59); demand for action (1.5K); analytics gap *"what is causing the decrease?"* (1.1K). Recurs thematically in the Greta thread (manufactured outrage/engagement farming).
Opportunity
(a) Drop-in forum/Discord bot-detection service scoring accounts on posting cadence, template similarity, and network co-occurrence — SaaS for mod teams; (b) a public "authenticity dashboard" tracking inauthentic amplification of named accounts/parties — sold to newsrooms, PR, and political research firms. Feasibility: (a) quick-to-medium; (b) medium, data-access dependent, but high-margin B2B.
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