Kinzen was paid €8,600 a month to combat Covid-19 ‘misinformation’ online
The 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
An Irish media tech start-up was paid over €8,600 a month to identify online misinformation related to Covid-19 and the state’s vaccination programme for the Department of Health.
The value of the nine-month contract between the department and Kinzen was €78,000, according to information released by Stephen Donnelly, the Minister for Health, in response to a parliamentary question earlier this month.
The figure reveals the cost that work to combat misinformation and disinformation can command, ...
