Just weeks after Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta announced that it would discontinue fact-checking in the US, TikTok has also scaled back its content moderation, according to insiders. Several people familiar with the matter told Reuters news agency on Thursday that jobs in the trust and security department would be cut as part of a restructuring program. It initially remained unclear how many jobs would be affected. TikTok claims to employ around 40,000 content moderation staff worldwide. It is unknown what impact the cuts could have, for example, on the political influence exerted on users. According to Reuters, the short video platform and its Chinese parent company ByteDance were unavailable for comment.