Elon Musk-led Twitter has laid off employees responsible for global content moderation and those in the hate speech and harassment units.
There were close to a dozen cuts made Friday night, affecting employees in Twitter's Dublin and Singapore offices, according to people familiar with the matter.
Employees who are responsible for the platform's misinformation policy, global appeals and state media were also removed.
The people laid off at Twitter include Nur Azhar Bin Ayob, a relatively recent hire as the head of site integrity for the Asia-Pacific region, and Analuisa Dominguez, Twitter's senior director of revenue policy, Bloomberg reported.
It made sense to consolidate teams under one leader instead of two, Ella Irwin, Twitter's head of trust and safety, told Bloomberg.
She said that Twitter had increased staffing in its appeals department.
Irwin quoted Irwin as saying that there are thousands of people in Trust and Safety who work in content moderation and have not made cuts to the teams that do that work daily.
In November, the social media company fired nearly 4,400 of its 5,500 contract employees.
The culling of contractors was part of a reprioritization and savings exercise, according to the company. Since he took over, Tesla CEO Musk has defended firing nearly half of Twitter's workforce – nearly 3,700 workers.
When the company was losing millions of dollars daily, Musk said there was no choice.
In the second quarter, Twitter had a net loss of $270 million, compared to a previous year's profit of $66 million.
Musk purchased Twitter for $44 billion and is under pressure to cut costs after making a deal that he overpaid, according to some analysts.