Elon Musk’s Twitter lays off more employees from this team

Elon Musk reportedly announced in November that Twitter won’t lay off more employees but if the reports are to be believed, the company has fired some more staff. The affected workers were in the company’s Dublin and Singapore offices.
As per a report by Bloomberg, Twitter fired its staff from the trust and safety team and its global content moderation unit that handled hate speech and harassment. Furthermore, employees in the teams handling global appeals and state media on the platform were also eliminated.
The list of employees includes Nur Azhar Bin Ayob, a recent hire as head of site integrity for the Asia-Pacific region, and Analuisa Dominguez, Twitter’s senior director of revenue policy, Bloomberg said.

Twitter confirms job cuts
Twitter’s vice president of trust and safety, Ella Irwin, told news agency Reuters that Twitter did make some cuts in the trust and safety team on January 6.
“We have thousands of people within Trust and Safety who work content moderation and have not made cuts to the teams that do that work daily,” Irwin was quoted as saying. The executive also said that “some of the cuts were in areas that lacked sufficient volume going forward or where it made sense to consolidate.”
Twitter fired janitorial workers
After firing over 50% of Twitter workers, Musk told employees in an all-hands meeting in November that the company was done with layoffs and was looking to recruit people in engineering and sales teams.
However, since then several people have either left the company voluntarily or they were laid off by the company. Last week, reports said that Twitter employees were being told to bring their toilet tissue to the workplace as the company has laid off janitorial workers.

Employees ‘unhappy’ with severance
Until last week, employees who were fired soon after Musk took the top job at Twitter claimed that they did not receive severance. Over the weekend, multiple reports said some employees got severance but it fell short of their expectations.
As per federal laws in the state of California, Twitter is required to pay sacked employees regular paychecks after the termination for the last two months. Musk, at the time of firing employees said that all the employees that were sacked were “offered 3 months of severance.”