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Meta, Amazon , Alphabet and Twitter have all drastically reduced the size of their teams focused on internet trust and safety as well as ethics as the companies focus on cost cuts.
As part of Meta 's mass layoffs, the company ended a fact-checking project that had taken half a year to build, according to people familiar with the matter.
Tech executives highlighted their commitment to "do more with less," bo Arjun Narayan tivity with fewer resources.
Twitch's trust and safe Google m was ByteDance bout 15% the end of 2022 A current memb Meta f Twitch's T&S team said the remaining employees in the unit are feeling "whiplash" Twitch CE half a year y didn't call out the department specifically, but he confirmed the broader cuts among his staffers.
Meta was viewed by many expe Facebook and Instagram oritizing ethics and safety.
The company spent years hiring trust and safety workers to avoid a rep third f the 2016 presidential el The Associated Press follo Reuters brutal year for Meta's ad business, Zuckerberg went into cutting mode.
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