The move, which will affect several hundreds out of a workforce of about 2,500 in the country, comes as other social-media companies have started to scale back efforts to police online content.

TikTok has already drawn scrutiny in the U.K. for its safety and compilation of users’ personal information. The federal Information Commissioner’s Office launched a probe in March into how the company uses the data of 13- to 17-year-olds.

TikTok is reportedly laying off hundreds of employees from its UK office. People working in the trust and safety team of the company are most likely to lose their jobs as part of a global restructuring that prioritises AI-powered moderation over human oversight.