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Meet the Atlanta Startup Taking on Bots, Deepfakes, And Online Identity Problems
Julia Social, an Atlanta-based startup founded by Ken Griggs, is building not.bot, an identity verification platform that confirms users are real humans without collecting personal data, tackling bots, deepfakes, and online identity fraud. The platform uses passport NFC chip scanning and cryptographic proofs to establish "Proof of Personhood" for individuals and businesses, with plans to launch a content authentication tool called Sign My Work later this summer.
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Summary
Julia Social, an Atlanta-based startup founded by Ken Griggs, is building not.bot, an identity verification platform that confirms users are real humans without collecting personal data, tackling bots, deepfakes, and online identity fraud. The platform uses passport NFC chip scanning and cryptographic proofs to establish "Proof of Personhood" for individuals and businesses, with plans to launch a content authentication tool called Sign My Work later this summer.
Tags
identity-verification · deepfakes · online-identity · startup · bots · privacy · proof-of-personhood
Key entities
Ken Griggs (person, 0.99) · Julia Social (organization, 0.99) · not.bot (technology, 0.98) · Atlanta (location, 0.97) · Proof of Personhood (concept, 0.95) · identity verification (concept, 0.95) · Climate Action Data Trust (organization, 0.85) · not.bot Verify (technology, 0.9) · deepfakes (concept, 0.92) · Hypepotamus (organization, 0.88) · Sign My Work (technology, 0.85) · multi-party computation (concept, 0.8)
Classification
analysis · language en · status final
Provenance
claude-opus-4-6 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 16 Jul 2026