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Published: October 10, 2022

Spotify buys company to detect ‘dangerous misinformation’ following already heavy censorship

By The Editor
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Mon Oct 10, 2022 – 4:32 pm EDT

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(Reclaim The Net) – Audio streaming service Spotify has acquired Kinzen, which is a company that detects and flags “dangerous misinformation and harmful content” within audio content by generating and analyzing audio transcriptions.

Spotify began partnering with Kinzen in 2020. In a blog post about the acquisiton, Spotify said Kinzen’s technology helps Spotify “analyze potential harmful content in multiple languages and countries.”

Kinzen has previously received funding from tech giant Meta and Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN). IFCN partners with Meta to “fact-check” posts on its platforms.

Kinzen also works with “content moderation service providers engaged by large technology companies,” consults with “public policy makers seeking to better understand and respond to harmful content,” and has previously partnered with other fact-checkers to detect “climate misinformation in audio.”

Kinzen’s technology works by using machine learning models to detect and flag “harmful language, language, claims, narratives, and policy violations” within the audio transcriptions it has generated.

It also applies “risk analysis” to flagged content.

Kinzen uses a “Database of Harms” to train these machine learning models. This Database of Harms

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