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points by bijowo1676 3 days ago | 0 comments

twitter had an enormous trust&safety moderation org and a lot of the headcount reduction was simply automating trust&safety processes and removing humans as much as possible

[–] sgerenser 3 days ago

It’s true they had a decent sized trust and safety org that was basically all fired, but I don’t think it was anywhere close to most of the layoffs. They laid off ~75% of their headcount, do you really think the company was 3/4 (or even 1/4) trust and safety moderators?

[–] bijowo1676 3 days ago

they were moderating the whole world, think about that for a moment

[–] sgerenser 3 days ago

I’m thinking about it, but I’m pretty sure the trust and safety org was far less than 75% of their employees. The low level human moderator work was almost all outside contractors, not employees included in their headcount and layoff numbers.

[–] nozzlegear 3 days ago

Sadly that didn't seem to work out very well for women and children.