TikTok Shifts to AI Moderation With Mass Layoffs

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How budget airline Jet2's irritatingly catchy jingle became the sound of summer on social media

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How Target lost its sparkle

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TikTok enters its efficiency era

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  • TikTok is laying off staff and instituting cost-saving measures as part of an efficiency push.
  • Many of the cuts have focused on its US e-commerce team.
  • TikTok Shop sales have slumped in the US this year amid tariffs and other uncertainty.

Belt-tightening is underway at TikTok.

Captured Chinese soldier said TikTok videos convinced him to join Russia's armed forces after he lost his job

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Wang Guangjun, pictured left, said he had seen promotional videos on Douyin, China's version of TikTok, for a job helping Russia's injured soldiers.

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Welcome to trade war TikTok

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TikTok is filled with videos of people on both sides of the trade war talking about tariffs.

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