ecause TikTok plans to shift its focus to AI innovation and content moderation decided to lay off many employees across the global workforce along
with many staff in Malaysia.
According to various sources that are familiar with this situation, TikTok made about 700 job cuts in Malaysia. In response to these statements, the TikTok social media platform which is owned by China’s ByteDance stated that under 500 employees were affected in the country and suffered job cuts.
It seems that those employees who were involved in some content moderation operations were lately informed about their layoffs in an email this Wednesday. These statements are provided by an anonymous source since they are not authorized to speak with the media about intern problems.
TikTok offered a response to the Reuters requests and validated previous statements along with the statement that plenty of employees were planned to have layoffs being part of a greater plan to enhance the moderation operations.
According to their website, The ByteDance company currently has more than 110,000 employees across 200 cities worldwide, while TikTok hires a diversity of automated detection powered by artificial intelligence and human moderators who can review the content posted directly on the site.
Also, the social media platform plans to make more reductions starting next month because they focus on consolidating some of their regional actions.
A spokesperson from TikTok mentioned in a statement "We're making these changes as part of our ongoing efforts to further strengthen our global operating model for content moderation,"
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The spokesperson also said, that this year the TikTok company is expecting to have some investment worth $2 billion worldwide in trust and also in safety. They will continue to enhance efficiency since almost 80% of the content that violated its guidelines is now removed thanks to automated technologies powered by AI.
These layoffs happened because the global technology firm is currently facing some regulatory pressures in Malaysia. The government of Malaysia has given orders to many social media operators to apply for an operating license until January in the context of some efforts to combat cyber crimes.
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