After Musk’s mass layoffs, X says it’s expanding safety and election teams

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X, the social network that most people still call Twitter, says it is adding staff to its safety and elections teams as it starts allowing more political advertising.

"We're currently expanding our safety and elections teams to focus on combating manipulation, surfacing inauthentic accounts and closely monitoring the platform for emerging threats," the company said in a blog post today.

X probably wouldn't need to hire more staff if not for owner Elon Musk's extreme cost-cutting. Since buying Twitter in October 2022, he has reduced the employee count from about 7,500 people to around 1,500.