TikTok cuts more online safety and content moderator jobs

Positions in U.S., Europe and Asia to be affected as platform increases AI use

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TikTok is cutting headcount in its "trust and safety" team responsible for content moderation and other tasks. © Reuters

YIFAN YU and CISSY ZHOU

PALO ALTO, California/HONG KONG -- Video-sharing app TikTok is laying off members of its trust and safety team while increasing its use of artificial intelligence in content moderation, sources told Nikkei Asia. 

The trust and safety team is tasked with content moderation and other user safety features, and the layoffs will impact staff in the U.S., Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, according to two of the sources, though the scale of the cuts was not clear.  

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