Three people with knowledge of the situation said on Thursday that TikTok is reorganizing and letting go of staff around the world in its trust and safety unit, which is in charge of moderating material.
Two people who work for the company said that Adam Presser, who is in charge of the unit and whose job it is to run the app, told staff about the move in a letter on Thursday.
Two of the people said that the layoffs started on the same day in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
TikTok did not answer right away when asked for a statement.
What will happen to TikTok is still unknown. About half of all Americans use a popular short video app that went dark for a short time last month. On January 19, a law went into effect that forced the app’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, to either sell it for national security reasons or face a ban.
TikTok CEO Shou Chew, Mark Zuckerberg, and other tech and media leaders appeared before Congress in January of last year. They were among lawmakers who said the companies were not doing enough to protect children from growing sexual predator threats on their platforms.
When Republican Senator Lindsey Graham asked about it, TikTok’s CEO said that the company would spend more than $2 billion on safety and trust measures.
As it moves toward using AI more in content control, the company let go of hundreds of workers around the world in October of last year. A lot of those workers were in Malaysia.
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TikTok says it has 40,000 trust and safety experts around the world. Parhlo World couldn’t find out right away how big these cuts were.
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