More than a dozen foreign employees, including members of the platform's department in charge of misinformation policy, were cut in the latest round of job cuts.
The company faces lawsuits for not giving enough notice to employees affected by the cuts.
The layoffs affect staff in the Dublin, Ireland, and Singapore offices.
It comes two months after Musk laid off members of content moderation in charge of tackling misinformation on the platform, as part of a round of massive cuts that affected half of its workforce.
According to Insider, hundreds of employees that had been laid off in November got severance agreements on Saturday.
In that case, it would total roughly three months of salary, compared to six months of severance to laid off employees from Facebook and four months toSnap, according to previous reports.
Insider has learned that one of the affected former staffers refused to sign and opted to participate in the class action lawsuit that was filed by the former employees.
The company did not respond to a Forbes inquiry asking for more information on the layoffs and severance packages, although the head of trust and safety said that specific departments were not targeted in the cuts.
Hate speech on the platform spiked after Musk took over, despite the platform's moderation policies. Musk tried to convince advertisers that he wouldn't let the platform descend into a "free-for-all hellscape," but it wasn't enough to prevent them from pulling their ads. The former head of safety and integrity admitted that there had been a spike in hate speech on the platform since Musk took over. Musk's Blue feature, which allowed people to purchase blue verification check marks and circumvent the platform's vetting process, led to a number of fake accounts that spread misinformation on multiple companies and celebrities.
Within a month of Musk taking over, he laid off half of the company's employees. Musk denied that he would cut 25% to 75% of the workforce.
Is Musk going to step down as CEO? The majority of respondents in a poll he posted on the platform said he should stay. After more than half of respondents to the poll called on him to step down, Musk suggested he would restrict policy decisions on the polls to followers of the social network.
There is more staff that is overseeing global content moderation.
A group of people who were laid off from the social networking site got low-paying jobs. They have to make a decision about legal action against Musk's company. The Business Insider has a story on it.
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