Spotify removes nearly 150 hours of content that it said violated its hate policy after Sky News reported it.
And experts are concerned that the"readily accessible" nature of this material could lure people towards extremism.
We showed our findings to Maurice Mcleod of Race on the Agenda, a social research charity focusing on issues impacting ethnic minorities in the UK."Early this May we had the highest [monthly] number of reported incidents of antisemitism and, in the year to March, we had 115,000 reported incidents of hate crime. Now that's just what's reported, which is always only the tip of the iceberg.
"And after that attack, there were a number of others throughout 2019. The spread of these ideas can really have a noticeable impact in compelling people to go on and commit atrocious violence."Another one, hosted by US-based alt-right creators, uses racist slurs and white supremacist symbols in the episode titles and descriptions.
In response to our findings, a Spotify spokesperson said:"Spotify prohibits content on our platform which expressly and principally advocates or incites hatred or violence against a group or individual based on characteristics, including, race, religion, gender identity, sex, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, veteran status, or disability.
And while technology capable of detecting hate speech in audio is being developed, it's not yet being widely deployed. But, she said, the option is available for companies to transcribe audio content and run it through text processing models trained to detect hate, which are far more advanced.Google's podcasting arm operates as a directory rather than a platform, meaning that it does not host content on its own server and instead collates podcast feeds that it automatically scrapes from the internet.
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