JEE News reported Saturday that Twitter has made further staff cuts to the trust and safety team that handles global content moderation and the hate speech and harassment unit.
At least a dozen more cuts affected workers at the company’s Dublin and Singapore offices on Friday night, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter.
Among the layoffs at the Elon Musk-owned social media platform are Noor Azhar bin Ayub, who was hired relatively recently as head of site integrity for the Asia-Pacific region and Twitter’s revenue policy, Bloomberg reported. Senior Director Analvesa Dominguez is involved.
Workers from teams handling disinformation on the platform, global appeals and policy on state media were also terminated, the report added.
Ella Irwin, Twitter’s vice president of trust and safety, confirmed to JEE News that Twitter made some cuts to the trust and safety team on Friday night, but did not provide details. “We have thousands of people within Trust and Safety doing content moderation work and they haven’t cut back on the teams that do it every day,” he said via email. He added that some of the cuts were in areas that lacked sufficient future volume or where consolidation made sense.
Twitter laid off about 3,700 employees in early November as part of a cost-cutting initiative by Musk, and hundreds more have resigned.
The company also faced a lawsuit last month that claimed the social media giant disproportionately targeted female employees in layoffs.
