Twitter Re-employed Several Staff In The Trust And Safety Team Of The Asia Pacific Region

Twitter again lay off employees. (photo: dock. https://www.builtinsf.com/)

JAKARTA - Twitter Inc is again cutting further staff in the TRUST and Safety team which handles global content moderation and in units related to hate speech and harassment. This report first emerged from Bloomberg News on Saturday, January 7.

According to a Bloomberg report citing sources familiar with the matter, at least a dozen more cuts on Friday evening January 6 affected workers at the company offices of Dublin and Singapore.

Those who were laid off on Elon Musk's social media platform included Nur Azhar Bin Ayob, who was relatively recently recruited as head of site integrity for the Asia-Pacific region, and Analuisa Dominguez, senior director of Twitter's revenue policy.

According to a report also cited by Reuters, workers in teams working on policies on misinformation, global calls, and state media on platforms were also eliminated.

Twitter's vice president of trust and security, Ella Irwin, confirmed to Reuters that Twitter made several cuts in trust and security teams on Friday night but did not provide details.

"We have thousands of people in Trust and Safety working on content moderation and haven't cut the team doing the job every day," he said by email. Some cuts, he added, are in areas that lack forward volume or where it makes sense to consolidate.

Twitter dismissed about 3,700 employees in early November as a cost cut step by Musk, and hundreds more later resigned.

The company was also hit by a lawsuit last month claiming the social media company was disproportionately targeting female employees who were laid off.