Musk cuts more Twitter employees to oversee moderation of global content: report

Twitter run by Elon Musk has reportedly fired employees responsible for global content moderation and those in the hate speech and harassment units.

Nearly a dozen cuts were made on Friday night, affecting employees at Twitter offices in Dublin and Singapore, Bloomberg reports citing people familiar with the matter.

Employees responsible for the social network's disinformation policy, global appeals and state media on the platform have also been eliminated.

Those laid off at Twitter include Nur Azhar Bin Ayob, a relatively new hire as site integrity manager for the Asia-Pacific region, and Analuisa Dominguez, senior director of Twitter's revenue policy, Bloomberg reported. .

"It made more sense to consolidate teams under one leader (instead of two), for example," said Ella Irwin, Twitter's head of trust and safety, at Bloomberg.

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She said Twitter eliminated roles in areas of the company that weren't getting enough "volume" to warrant continued support. However, she said Twitter has increased the staffing of its appeals department.

"We have thousands of people within Trust and Safety who work on content moderation and have not made any cuts to the teams who do this work on a daily basis," said Irwin, quoted by Reuters.

Last year in November, the social media company reportedly laid off nearly 4,400 of its roughly 5,500 contract workers.

The company explained the elimination of contractors as part of an "exercise in reprioritization and savings".

Tesla CEO Musk has denied laying off nearly half of Twitter's workforce, or nearly 3,700 workers, since taking office.

Musk said there was no other choice when the company was losing millions of dollars a day.

Twitter posted a net loss of $270 million in the second quarter ended June 30, 2022, compared to a profit of $66 million in the same period a year earlier.

Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion and is under pressure to cut costs after reaching a deal in which he overpaid, some analysts say.

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