Twitter Inc made further staff cuts in the trust and safety team handling global content moderation and in the unit related to hate speech and harassment, Bloomberg news reported on Saturday.
At least a dozen more cuts on Friday night affected workers
in the company's Dublin and Singapore offices, the report said, citing people
familiar with the matter.
Those laid off at the social media platform owned by Elon
Musk include Nur Azhar Bin Ayob, a relatively recent hire as head of site
integrity for the Asia-Pacific region, and Analuisa Dominguez, Twitter's senior
director of revenue policy, Bloomberg reported.
Workers on teams handling policy on misinformation, global
appeals and state media on the platform were also eliminated, the report added.
Twitter's vice president of trust and safety, Ella Irwin,
confirmed to Reuters that Twitter made some cuts in the trust and safety team
on Friday night but did not give details.
"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. Some of the cuts, she added, were in
areas that lacked sufficient volume going forward 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 subsequently resigned.
The company was also was hit with a lawsuit last month that
claimed the social media company disproportionately targeted female employees
in layoffs.