Twitter layoffs: Dozen of staff fired in Dublin, Singapore | Mint

Home / Companies / News /  Twitter layoffs: Dozen of staff fired in Dublin, Singapore 2 min read . Updated: 08 Jan 2023, 07:00 AM IST Livemint Premium Layoffs at Twitter Inc continues (AFP) Since taking over the company, Elon Musk has overseen the firings or departures of roughly 5,000 of Twitter’s 7,500 employees 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. Ella Irwin, Twitter’s head of trust and safety confirmed the agency that several members of the teams were fired. She said Twitter did eliminate roles in areas of the company that didn’t get enough “volume” to justify continued support. But she said that Twitter had
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