According to the CEO of TikTok, the company is well-equipped to avoid mass layoffs in response to questions related to the firing of half of the staff at Twitter.
"I hope that day doesn't come," Chew said during the forum. The way we are organized means we don't need to lay off half the workforce to achieve our goals.
In order to secure TikTok, the platform employs tens and thousands of employees in content moderation.
One of the largest teams that a tech company will have is its trust and safety team. If you want to keep the platform safe, you need to invest in that.
It's too early to tell what's going to happen under Musk's leadership.
Some voiced concern over how the platform will battle misinformation after Musk began layoffs for content moderation that were outsourcing.
Sarah Roberts, who was a staff researcher at the company, said on Sunday that at least 3000 contract workers lost their jobs on Saturday.
Two people familiar with the matter told The Information that TikTok would double its engineering staff in Mountain View to 2,000 employees.
Despite layoffs in the tech sector, TikTok's earnings continue to grow. The platform slashed its global ad revenue target by $2 billion earlier this month due to falling sales.
In a letter to Republican senators in late June, TikTok confirmed that ByteDance employees in China can access US user data.
According to an October report, the platform's parent company ByteDance discussed plans to gather location data on at least two users. The app doesn't collect preciseGPS location information from US users.
The FBI believes that TikTok's influence on the US is a threat to the country. He was concerned that the Chinese government could use TikTok to collect data on millions of American users, as well as control software that could compromise millions of personal devices.
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