Twitter Employees Layoff: Twitter Fires Dozen Employees in Trust and Safety Team

Twitter Employees Layoff: Twitter Fires Dozen Employees in Trust and Safety Team

Twitter Employees Layoff: Twitter has laid off a dozen employees in its trust and safety team, which handles global content moderation, and in a unit dealing with hate speech and harassment, Bloomberg news agency reported. The Elon Musk-led company laid off workers in its Dublin and Singapore offices in January.

According to a Bloomberg report, the affected staff included Noor Azhar bin Ayoub, head of site integrity for Twitter’s Asia-Pacific region, a relatively recent hire; and Analuisa Dominguez, Twitter’s senior director of revenue policy. The report added that workers in the teams managing the platform’s disinformation policy, global appeals, and state media were also removed. Twitter Employees Layoff.

 

Ella Irwin, Twitter’s director of trust and safety, confirmed to the organization that several members of the teams had been fired. Twitter has eliminated roles in areas of the company that don’t get enough “volume” to provide ongoing support, he said. But Twitter has increased staff in its appeals department and will continue to head revenue policy, he said. and Head of the Asia-Pacific Region of the Forum for Confidence and Security.  Read Also: Elon Musk Affair With Google co-founder Sergey Brin Wife Nicole Shanahan

 

Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion in October 2022, partially financing the deal with about $13 billion in debt, which includes interest payments of about $1.5 billion a year. Since then, he has launched a frantic operation to revamp the social media platform, which he says was in danger of bankruptcy and was losing $4 million a day in early November. Twitter Employees Layoff.

 

Since taking over the company, Musk has overseen the layoffs or departures of about 5,000 of Twitter’s 7,500 employees and instituted a “tough” work environment for the rest. Last month on Twitter Spaces, the mercurial businessman likened the company to “a plane heading towards the ground at high speed with engines on fire and controls not working”. Twitter faces multiple lawsuits over unpaid bills, including for private jets, software services, and rent at its San Francisco office.