Twitter Inc has fired a dozen of staff in the trust and safety team handling global content moderation and in the unit related to hate speech and harassment, Bloomberg news agency reported. The Elon Musk-led company laid off workers in Dublin and Singapore offices in January.
As per Bloomberg’s report, the affected staff include Nur Azhar Bin Ayob, the head of site integrity for Twitter’s Asia-Pacific region, a relatively recent hire; and Analuisa Dominguez, Twitter’s senior director of revenue policy.
Workers on teams handling policy on misinformation, global appeals and state media on the platform were also eliminated, the report added.
Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion in October 2022, partly financing the deal with almost $13 billion of debt that entailed interest repayments of around $1.5 billion a year. He has since embarked on a frantic mission to revamp the social-media platform, which he has said is at risk of going bankrupt and was losing $4 million a day as of early November.
Since taking over the company, Musk has overseen the firings or departures of roughly 5,000 of Twitter’s 7,500 employees and instituted a “hardcore” work environment for those remaining.
