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Call for TikTok to Explain How It Will Moderate Content Amid Potential Job Cuts
TikTok will cut over 400 London trust and safety jobs, shifting moderation to fewer global sites and AI to improve process speed and platform safety, MPs said.
- TikTok risks more than 400 London, UK trust and safety jobs as it plans to concentrate moderation in fewer global sites and increase investment in AI, with Dame Chi Onwurah setting a November 10 response deadline.
- Ali Law, TikTok's Northern Europe public policy director, told MPs in an October 20 letter the proposals aim to speed and improve moderation to increase safety, and he emphasised staff support for AI moderation as recently as February this year.
- The Trades Union Congress warned Thursday that TikTok plans to replace skilled UK workers with AI and overseas agency workers in Kenya and the Philippines, while moderators protested redundancy risks.
- A TikTok spokesperson told Sky News it rejected the committee's claims, saying the proposals improve moderation speed and efficacy, while Dame Chi Onwurah said the job losses bring into question TikTok's ability to protect users.
- Dame Chi Onwurah said `TikTok seem to be backtracking on statements it made only half a year ago`, and moderators in Dublin and Berlin are also reported at risk.
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TikTok urged to clarify how it will moderate content amid proposed job cuts
MPs said planned job losses in the app’s trust and safety teams are ‘concerning’.
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