In January final 12 months, TikTok CEO Chew Shou Zi testified earlier than Congress alongside Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg and different tech and media heads in a listening to the place lawmakers accused the businesses of failing to guard youngsters from escalating threats of sexual predation on their platforms.
Replying to questions from Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, Chew had mentioned that the corporate would spend greater than US$2 billion on belief and security efforts.
In October final 12 months, the corporate laid off a whole bunch of staff from its world workforce, together with numerous workers in Malaysia because it shifts focus in direction of a higher use of AI in content material moderation.
TikTok says it has 40,000 belief and security professionals worldwide. Reuters was not in a position to instantly set up the extent of those cuts.
