It’s unknown exactly how many content moderators are set to laid off, but The Wall Street Journal’s sources said that ‘hundreds’ of its London team could be impacted.
Social media giants like Meta have been cutting professional content moderators en masse in favor of community-based moderation, while platforms like Musk’s X now operate vastly reduced human content moderation teams compared to its Twitter days.
Now, TikTok plans to lay off hundreds of content moderators in a fresh AI pivot. The move, reported by The Wall Street Journal, will mainly impact members of a 2,500-person team based in the UK, but many employees from South and Southeast Asia will also be affected. However, exact numbers were not disclosed.
Over 85% of content removed from the platform for violating its guidelines is already identified and taken down by AI, TikTok told the Journal.
