Media Spotify buys Dublin media company Kinzen as it battles online misinformationThe Irish firm’s technology analyses potential harmful content and hate speech
Twitter takeover: Can we trust Elon Musk with the ‘closest thing we have to a global consciousness’?If the tycoon sets the social media platform on an anything-goes path of free speech absolutism, he will quickly run up against stringent new European laws which were agreed last weekend
Online misinformation will play ‘critical’ role in Russia conflict — Irish tech start-upKinzen reports rise in number of false or misleading videos circulating online
Kinzen was paid €8,600 a month to combat Covid-19 ‘misinformation’ onlineThe tech start-up, co-founded by Mark Little and Aine Kerr, received a total of €78,000 from the Department of Health for nine months of work
‘Covid was the making of us’ — Kinzen predicts tripled revenues in 2022Online platform founded by Mark Little and Áine Kerr plans to double its headcount next year as companies tackle digital misinformation
Mark Little regrets Rusbridger’s loss to media commission The Storyful founder says the former Guardian editor was making an important contribution to the Future of Media Commission from which he resigned over a Roy Gleenslade article from 2014
How Kinzen is aiming to create a vaccine for the ‘infodemic’Journalists Áine Kerr and Mark Little know a lot about internet virality from previous start-up Storyful which they are bringing to their second venture, an anti-disinformation fix for the internet
Making It Work: Global response to Kinzen’s call to join battle on disinformationKinzen, set up by Mark Little and Áine Kerr, offers a blend of human expertise and artificial intelligence to tackle fake news
