Twitter’s high security government says election integrity is a “top priority” for the corporate whilst the corporate has shed half of its workers within the final 24 hours. Yoel Roth, Twitter’s head of security and one of many firm leaders to outlive mass layoffs, took to Twitter to downplay moderation issues raised by activists and advertisers in latest days.

“Yesterday’s reduction in force affected approximately 15% of our Trust & Safety organization (as opposed to approximately 50% cuts company-wide), with our front-line moderation staff experiencing the least impact,” Roth tweeted. “With early voting underway in the US, our efforts on election integrity — including harmful misinformation that can suppress the vote and combatting state-backed information operations — remain a top priority.”

Roth’s feedback come hours after the NAACP joined a coalition of activists and civil rights organizations to name for advertisers spending with Twitter. While Musk met with civil rights leaders earlier this week, these calling for a boycott mentioned the corporate’s deep workers cuts undermined his promise to take care of Twitter’s election safety insurance policies and its hate speech guidelines.

Roth, who’s to date the one Twitter government apart from Musk to publicly weigh in on the corporate’s insurance policies following Musk’s takeover, additionally tried to deal with stories in regards to the impression workers cuts would have on security.

“Last week, for security reasons, we restricted access to our internal tools for some users, including some members of my team,” he mentioned. “Most of the 2,000+ content moderators working on front-line review were not impacted, and access will be fully restored in the coming days.” But whereas a lot of Roth’s Trust and Safety group might have been spared, quite a few different groups whose work touches on issues of safety weren’t.

As NBC News , Twitter’s curation group, which labored to counter misinformation on the platform, was axed completely. Many engineering roles that cope with issues of safety have been additionally reduce, as have been quite a few staff and communications.

On Friday, Musk mentioned that the layoffs have been mandatory. “Regarding Twitter’s reduction in force, unfortunately there is no choice when the company is losing over $4M/day,” he tweeted, including that staff have been supplied three months of severance. “Again, to be crystal clear, Twitter’s strong commitment to content moderation remains absolutely unchanged.”