New Delhi: Twitter Inc has further cut staff in the trust and safety team handling global content moderation and in the unit dealing with hate speech and harassment, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday. Citing people familiar with the matter, the report said at least a dozen more cuts affected workers in the company’s Dublin and Singapore offices on Friday night. Those laid off at the Elon Musk-owned social media platform include Noor Azhar bin Ayoob, a recent hire as head of site integrity for the Asia-Pacific region, and Twitter’s senior head of revenue policy. Director Analuis Dominguez told Bloomberg.
Workers from the teams handling policy on the platform on misinformation, global appeals and state media were also removed, the report said. Ella Irwin, Twitter’s vice president of trust and safety, confirmed to Reuters 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 security who do content moderation and don’t cut into the teams that work daily,” she said via email. Some of the cuts, he said, were in areas that lacked substantial forward growth or where it made sense to consolidate.
Twitter laid off about 3,700 employees in early November in a cost-cutting measure by Musk, and hundreds more have since resigned. The company was also hit with a lawsuit last month that claimed the social media company disproportionately targeted female employees in layoffs.