• by Karlene Lukovitz  @KLmarketdaily, January 9, 2023

In another development unlikely to allay advertisers’ concerns about brand safety, Twitter has cut more employees in charge of handling content moderation.

On Friday, the platform let go at least 12 staffers in its Dublin and Singapore offices, including Nur Azhar Bin Ayob, head of site integrity for the Asia-Pacific region, and Analuisa Dominguez, Twitter's senior director of revenue policy, according to Businessweek sources.

Members of teams working on trust and safety and hate speech and harassment were reportedly let go, as well as some handling policy on misinformation, global appeals and state media on the platform.

Twitter confirmed some layoffs, but declined to provide specifics.

"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," Ella Irwin, Twitter’s vice president of trust and safety, confirmed to Reuters by email, adding that some cuts were in areas with insufficient volume.

Twitter let about 3,700 employees go in November, and made at least three more rounds of cuts in December. The latter included laying off about 40 data scientists and engineers working on advertising, according to The Information.

Twitter owner/CEO Elon Musk is struggling to cut costs in the wake of the already financially challenged platform losing about half of its biggest advertisers due to Musk policies that have opened the gates for previously banned content.