Twitter is dealing with challenges on a number of fronts. The firm is tied up in a authorized struggle over Elon Musk’s will-he-won’t-he acquisition. And earlier this week, whistleblower allegations introduced renewed scrutiny to the platform’s probably sub-par safety practices.

Now, the corporate is making some, seemingly associated, inside adjustments. Twitter is merging its content material moderating “health experience” and spam-busting “service” groups into one new mixed sector known as “health products and services,” in line with a Tuesday workers memo reportedly seen by Reuters.

The structural change-up comes amid the continued Musk acquisition drama (i.e. Musk’s assertion that the social media platform doesn’t precisely monitor and report bot numbers, and that that ought to free him from his settlement to buy the social media website).

Notably, the crew merger additionally straight adopted the extensively publicized whistleblower claims of a former firm exec that Twitter has total weak safety practices, and that the platform knowingly ignores its bot downside.

In a letter despatched July 6, and in follow-up interviews with CNN and The Washington Post, Peiter “Mudge” Zatko made a number of allegations in opposition to Twitter. These embody that the corporate has allowed authorities brokers to infiltrate the platform, that half of all staff have entry to delicate consumer information, and that Twitter doesn’t, in actual fact, have correct numbers on bots.

Musk’s authorized crew has subpoenaed Zatko to testify concerning the bot difficulty within the billionaire’s ongoing courtroom battle.

The firm declined to answer Gizmodo’s questions on if this inside re-organization was straight associated to Zatko’s claims. However, in an e-mailed assertion, a Twitter spokesperson informed Gizmodo the next:

This reorganization displays our continued dedication to prioritize, and focus our groups in pursuit of our objectives. Stopping unhealthy actors, creating extra transparency round how we assist a wholesome platform, whereas additionally serving to promote and encourage numerous ideas and conversations continues to be foundational to all the pieces we do and the way we arrange our groups. We are grateful for the continued management and experience Ella Irwin, VP Product, has delivered to this work over the past a number of months to tell this new construction and to make sure our groups are arrange for fulfillment.

According to Reuters, Irwin, who might be main the crew, wrote within the Tuesday e-mail to workers that “we need to focus on specific problems, working together as one team and no longer operating in silos.” She added that the brand new group will “ruthlessly prioritize” its work and objectives.