![]() ![]() Stockholm-founded Spotify, the market leader for audio subscriptions, said acquiring Kinzen would help it “more effectively deliver a safe, enjoyable experience on our platform around the world”. This will “help Spotify better understand the abuse landscape and identify emerging threats” on its platform, the streamer said. Kinzen’s technology combines machine learning and human expertise – backed by analysis from leading local academics and journalists – to analyse potential harmful content and hate speech in multiple languages and countries. Mr Little, a former RTÉ journalist who previously founded the company Storyful before selling it to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, said the deal signalled Dublin’s emerging status as a hub for trust and safety, and was an example of one European company buying another European company in a global industry more typically associated with Silicon Valley. It has been working with Spotify since 2020, initially on electoral integrity, flagging podcast content for review ahead of that year’s presidential election. Kinzen, which was first founded in 2017 as Neva Labs and changed its name a year later, originally focused on news curation before pivoting into the online trust and safety sector, using its technology to identify harmful content and hate speech. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Spotify has acquired Kinzen, a Dublin-based company founded by Mark Little, Áine Kerr and Paul Watson, saying it will use its “advanced technology and deep expertise” to help it identify harmful content and “emerging threats” on its audio streaming platform. ![]()
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