Attempts to filter explicit music on Spotify playlists

One of the world’s largest music streaming services, Spotify, has started testing a way of filtering out songs which have explicit lyrics.

The new setting does not replace explicit words with clean versions, it greys out the explicit songs and prevents them from playing.

Nicola Ford, a mother who set up an online petition calling for the filter, said the new setting does not go far enough because kids will find a way to sneak in the song.