ByteDance's TikTok is laying off hundreds of employees, mainly in Malaysia, according to a report from Reuters.

The China-owned social-media platform is laying off employees as part of a revamp of its content-moderation operations.

Social media platform TikTok is laying off hundreds of employees from its global workforce, including a large number of staff in Malaysia, the company said on Friday, as it shifts focus towards a greater use of AI in content moderation.

TikTok is reportedly laying off 500 employees from its workforce in Malaysia. The company plans to automate its content moderation process using AI and roll out the change globally. Generative AI affects significant sectors, including software development, banking, and the built environment.

ByteDance’s TikTok announced on Friday that it is reducing the number of workers it employs worldwide by hundreds, including a significant number of workers in Malaysia, in order to concentrate on using artificial intelligence (AI) more in content moderation.

TikTok, the popular social media platform owned by China's ByteDance, has announced the layoff of hundreds of employees from its

China's ByteDance, the parent of social media platform TikTok, has laid off more than 700 workers from its Malaysian unit as the company shifts focus towards greater use of AI in content moderation, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

TikTok confirmed the layoffs and said that several hundred employees were expected to be impacted globally as part of a wider plan to improve its moderation operations.

Short-video platform TikTok currently employs a mix of automated detection and human moderators to review content posted on the site ByteDance-owned social-media platform TikTok is laying off hundreds of employees from its global workforce,

China-based ByteDance, the parent company of popular social media platform TikTok, has laid off more than 700 employees from its Malaysian operations, according to sources familiar with the situation.