TikTok set to lay off 300 employees in content moderation, trust & safety teams: FT reportThe report by the Financial Times also said the ByteDance-owned video platform is looking at technological advances, including working on l...
22 Aug, 2025, 07.50 PM IST
TikTok Germany moderators raise alarm over layoff plansContent moderators at the German branch of social media giant TikTok sounded the alarm Thursday about what they say is a plan to replace th...
18 Jul, 2025, 01.08 AM IST
Meta content moderation contractor cuts over 2,000 jobs in Spain: unionDuring a meeting on Monday morning the company, which operates locally as Barcelona Digital Services, said it had terminated the contracts ...
05 May, 2025, 04.47 PM IST
Meta's content moderation contractor cuts 2,000 jobs in BarcelonaMeta invested billions and hired thousands of content moderators globally over the years to police sensitive content, but in January it scr...
04 Apr, 2025, 10.51 PM IST
Meta Ditches Fact-Checkers, Replaces Them with Elon Musk-Inspired Community NotesMeta ends fact-checking program: Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has reportedly announced the discontinuation of its th...
07 Jan, 2025, 09.32 PM IST
TikTok slashes hundreds of jobs in AI shift"We expect to invest $2 billion globally in trust and safety in 2024 alone and are continuing to improve the efficacy of our efforts, with ...
12 Oct, 2024, 10.24 AM IST
ByteDance cuts over 700 jobs in Malaysia in shift towards AI moderation, sources sayThe employees, most of whom were involved in the firm's content moderation operations, were informed of their dismissal by email late Wedne...
11 Oct, 2024, 09.25 AM IST
Kenya court rules Meta can be sued over layoffs by contractorLast year the content moderators sued Meta and two local contractors, saying they lost their jobs with Sama, a Kenya-based firm contracted ...
20 Sep, 2024, 09.53 PM IST
Kenyan judge temporarily blocks mass layoff of Facebook moderatorsJudge Matthews Nduma issued an interim injunction against Meta and the Kenya-based outsourcing firm Sama, preventing them from terminating ...
22 Mar, 2023, 09.43 AM IST
Twitter will use AI to detect, highlight manipulation of public opinion: Elon Musk"In the months ahead, we will use AI to detect & highlight manipulation of public opinion on this platform. Let’s see what the psy ops cat ...
18 Mar, 2023, 09.52 AM IST
EU tells Elon Musk to hire more staff to moderate TwitterThe demand complicates Musk's efforts to reorganize the loss-making business he acquired for $44 billion in October.
08 Mar, 2023, 08.40 AM IST
Twitter further cuts staff overseeing global content moderationTwitter laid off roughly 3,700 employees in early November in a cost-cutting measure by Musk, and hundreds more subsequently resigned.
08 Jan, 2023, 08.52 AM IST
Twitter executive says moving fast on moderation, as harmful content surgesTwitter is also more aggressively restricting abuse-prone hashtags and search results in areas including child exploitation, regardless of ...
03 Dec, 2022, 07.42 AM IST
Twitter turmoil, staff exodus aggravate security concernsTwitter has plunged into turmoil as Musk, a self-professed free speech absolutist, seeks to shake up the money-losing company after his blo...
20 Nov, 2022, 08.57 AM IST
Astronomer locked out of her Twitter account for months over ‘intimate’ video of meteorTwitter's content moderation tools recently flagged a harmless video of a meteor as ‘intimate content’ and blocked the astronomer who poste...
18 Nov, 2022, 12.34 AM IST
Elon Musk threatens 'thermonuclear name & shame' of advertisers who back out from TwitterElon Musk, who recently bought Twitter in a $44 billion deal, blamed "activist groups pressuring advertisers" for a "massive drop in revenu...
05 Nov, 2022, 03.16 PM IST
Elon Musk plans job cuts at Twitter, asks managers for list of employees to be laid offAccording to the New York Times, Elon Musk intends to start firing current employees at Twitter as early as this Saturday.
30 Oct, 2022, 07.35 PM IST