Polymarket adds social media attention markets, draws bot activity

Polymarket has launched social media attention markets that let users bet on metrics including mindshare, sentiment, and overall online clout. The new product line has drawn more than $5.4 million in trading volume across 152 contracts. Bots are already active in these markets, taking advantage of the easily gamed nature of online engagement data. The activity poses an integrity challenge for the platform as it expands beyond traditional event-contract offerings into more manipulable data sources. The attention markets appeared by June 4. Cryptobriefing reported the launch details on June 5. Bloomberg noted the bot manipulation risk on June 4.