Twitter has made further staff cuts in the team that handles global content moderation and in the unit related to hate speech and harassment, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday (7).
At least a dozen more layoffs on Friday night affected workers at the company’s offices in Dublin and Singapore, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter.
Those fired from the Elon Musk-owned social media platform include Nur Azhar Bin Ayob, a relatively recent hire as head of site integrity for the Asia-Pacific region, and Analuisa Dominguez, Twitter’s senior director of revenue policy, the statement said. Bloomberg.
Workers on teams dealing with disinformation policy, global appeals and state media on the platform were also eliminated, the report added.
Twitter’s vice president of trust and safety, Ella Irwin, confirmed to Reuters that the company made some staff cuts on Friday night, but did not elaborate. “We have thousands of people working on content moderation, and there have been no cuts to the teams that do this work on a daily basis,” she said via email. Some cuts were in areas that didn’t have enough volume for the future or where it made sense to consolidate, she added.
Twitter laid off about 3,700 employees in early November in Musk’s cost-cutting move, and hundreds more have subsequently resigned.
The company was also hit with a lawsuit last month that alleged the social media platform disproportionately targeted female employees in layoffs.
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