Content ModerationConsumer FacingVerified
Reviewed and published by trentmaziarz, March 18, 2026. Discovered and drafted by our automated research pipeline.
Podcast creators on Spotify can enable automatic moderation of listener comments, with AI holding potentially problematic comments for review before they're published.
Details
Launched October 2024. Three levels: Standard (holds potentially sensitive comments), High (holds all until approved), Low (auto-posts except rule violations). English-only at launch. At launch, 2.5 million comments had been posted across 650,000 episodes since the comments feature launched in July 2024.
Products affected
Spotify Podcasts
Sources & Evidence
Cite this record
Trace Foundation. (2026). Spotify: Podcast creators on Spotify can enable automatic moderation of listener comments, with AI holding potentially problematic comments for review before they're published (data as of 2026-03-18) [Data set record]. AI Trace. https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/cf2dd860-545c-43e7-8c0b-c958ffa31dd2. Accessed October 13, 2026.
- Stable link
- https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/cf2dd860-545c-43e7-8c0b-c958ffa31dd2
- Data as of
- March 18, 2026
- Last verified
- March 24, 2026
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