Violent content: implicit or explicit statements inciting, admitting intent to commit, praising or glorifying violence against individuals or groups.

It includes mocking and promoting hate crimes. Hateful content: promoting or inciting violence, hatred or discrimination against individuals and groups based on race, ethnicity, nationality or national origin, gender or sex, disability or serious disease, religious affiliation, sexual orientation. Kinzen is rather explicit about it role it seeks to “identify, detect and prioritize policy violations in audio, video and text content.”ĭangerous misinformation: false, misleading or manipulated information with the potential to create real-world harm or interfere with elections or other civic processes, as well as coordinated disinformation campaigns designed to manipulate public conversations, undermine the democratic process, defraud citizens or threaten their health, security or environment. Founded in 2017, Kinzen has grown from moderating election-related content to “targeting misinformation, disinformation and hate speech” online. The audio streaming platform has acquired Dublin-based Kinzen, a content moderation tech firm it has been working with since 2020. Spotify took it on the chin during the pandemic because of information presented by Joe Rogan that was deemed to be “disinformation” and it would appear that the streaming giant has decided to “censor” what users can see, read, or listen to on its platform.

#trustandsafety is going to be a big topic online going forward and how that translates into a form of censorship is up for debate.

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