Workers from teams handling disinformation on the platform, global appeals and policy on state media were also terminated, the report added.
Ella Irwin, Twitter’s vice president of trust and safety, confirmed to Reuters that Twitter made some cuts to the trust and safety team on Friday night, but did not provide details. “We have thousands of people within Trust and Safety doing content moderation work and they haven’t cut back on the teams that do it every day,” he said via email. He added that some of the cuts were in areas that lacked enough volume to move forward or where it made sense to consolidate.
Twitter laid off about 3,700 employees in early November in a cost-cutting move by Musk, and hundreds more have resigned since then.
The company was also the target of a lawsuit last month that claimed the social media giant disproportionately targeted female employees in layoffs.
