Tiktok is making redundancies worldwide in the field of security and confidence, a unit dealing with content control over restructuring, today three sources who know the issue said today.

Two sources said that Adam Presero, the operational director of the application, who is also responsible for the unit, today sent a memorandum to staff informing him of the forthcoming redundancies.

The redundancies began the same day for these sections in Asia and Europe; the Middle East and Africatwo of the sources said.

This move takes place at a time when Tiktok’s luck is doubtful. The popular implementation of short videos, used by almost half of Americans, stopped for a while last month before law enforced on January 19, who obliges Chinese owner byTedance to sell it for national security reasons otherwise will otherwise close.

In January last year, TIKTOK CEO Zi Chu testified before Congress with Meta leader Mark Zuckerberg and other heads of technology companies and media companies during a hearing They accused companies that did not protect children from escalating sexual content threats on their platforms.

Answering questions by Republican Senator Lindsay Graham, Tiktok’s chief executive said the company will spend more from two billion dollars in efforts in the field of security and trust.

In October last year, the company fired hundreds of employees from its worldwide potential, including a large number of employees in Malaysia, as it shifts its interest in greater use of artificial intelligence in content control.

Tiktok says it is employed 40,000 employees working in the Security and Confidence Department worldwide. Reuters was not able to immediately ascertain the size of these cuts.