Elon Musk recently laid off more Twitter employees working on the platform's trust and safety efforts, roles typically crucial to keeping a social media platform safe for advertisers.
While this layoff only affected a handful of people, five to 10, it was focused entirely on workers in trust and safety.
Such workers are responsible for overseeing daily communications on Twitter, and mitigating the appearance and spread of toxic content, mainly so businesses feel comfortable advertising on the platform.
As Musk courts controversy , conspiracy , and antisemitism , the advertising business on Twitter, renamed X, has plummeted by more than half and usage has waned .
By mid-November, Twitter's trust and safety team had no engineers and no agents, as Insider reported, leaving the team mainly in the hands of people who did administrative work.
Persons:
Elon, Twitter's, Musk, Linda Yaccarino, Kali Hays
Organizations:
Twitter, Engineering, Yaccarino, Defamation League
Locations:
khays@insider.com, @hayskali