https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/11/sentropy-emerges-from-stealth-with-an-ai-platform-to-tackle-online-abuse-backed-by-13m-from-initialized-and-more/

Online abuse in its many forms on social media is in the spotlight these days as it has never been before: not only can strong and hateful words be directly harmful to individuals, but their use fans the flames around hate groups and other extremists, fomenting even stronger (and often tragic) responses offline, too. Today, a startup called Sentropy that believes it has developed the most sophisticated, yet easy to implement, system yet to help identify, track and ultimately purge online abuse by way of its AI-based platform, is launching to take on the issue.

The idea behind Sentropy as much philosophical as it is technical: John Redgrave, the CEO who cofounded the startup Michele Banko, Taylor Rhyne, and Ethan Breder, said that it was about using what he and his cofounders knew about how to manipulate and “read” unstructured data, to apply it to online abuse, which finally, really needed to be taken seriously.