According to a report from Bloomberg News on Saturday, Twitter Inc. has made additional employee reductions in the unit responsible for hate speech and harassment as well as the trust and safety team, which manages worldwide content moderation.
The article, which cited sources familiar with the situation, claimed that at least a dozen additional layoffs on Friday night affected employees in the company’s Dublin and Singapore headquarters. Among those fired from the social media network run by Elon Musk are Analuisa Dominguez, Twitter’s senior director of revenue policy, and Nur Azhar Bin Ayob, who was only recently hired as the Asia-Pacific region’s head of site integrity.
The report also stated that staff members working on teams responsible for state media, international appeals, and misinformation policy on the platform had been fired. Twitter made some changes to the trust and safety team on Friday night, according to Ella Irwin, vice president of trust and safety, who acknowledged this to Reuters but withheld further information.
“We have thousands of people within Trust and Safety who work content moderation and have not made cuts to the teams that do that work daily,” she said via email.
According to her, some of the cuts were made in divisions where consolidation made sense or where there wouldn’t be enough traffic moving forward.
