Bloomberg News reported that Twitter has made further job cuts in the trust and safety team that handles global content moderation, and in the hate speech and harassment unit.
The report quoted informed sources as saying that at least ten more cuts on Friday night affected workers in the company’s offices in Dublin and Singapore, reports a local Arabic daily quoting Reuters.
Bloomberg reported that among those laid off from the social networking platform owned by billionaire Elon Musk are Nour Azhar bin Ayoub, who was recently appointed head of site safety in the Asia-Pacific region, and Analoisa Dominguez, senior director of revenue policy at Twitter.
The report added that staff have also been laid off in teams dealing with disinformation policy, global appeals and government media on the platform.
Twitter’s vice president of trust and safety, Ella Irwin, confirmed to Reuters that the company made some team cuts on Friday night, without elaborating.
“We have thousands of people on our Trust and Safety team who work on content moderation, and we don’t cut corners for people who do this work every day,” Irwin said in an email.
She added that some of the labor cuts took place in areas where there were not enough numbers to go forward or where it made sense to include them.
Twitter laid off nearly 3,700 employees in early November in a cost-cutting measure by Musk, and hundreds have subsequently resigned.