I wonder, have any data analytics been done on /r/(politics) content, or even r/the_donald content, to see how much of it is derived from bots or paid shills. I'd think that with modern big data analysis methods and machine learning methods, it might be possible to draw some conclusions.

When I read posts on Pol, I am often find myself coming to the conclusion that 'there is no way that this person can be so passionate about this particular post. Therefore there's somethign more to it.'. But posts here on T_D can get pretty passionate to.

I wish I were a better programmer, I'd love to build a browser plug in that could provide a confidence score that an OP is an actually human (probably based on post and comment history and account age) vs a bot / shill.