Big Tech’s censorship teams appear to be losing steam amidst legal scrutiny, layoffs, and waning popularity, the New York Times reported Tuesday.

YouTube, for example, cut two of five “hate speech and harassments” policy experts, removed two of five misinformation experts, and reduced its policy enforcement and response teams, according to the NYT. This comes after Google’s parent company, Alphabet, cut around 12,0000 employees in January.

Twitter’s reductions have been the most pronounced since Elon Musk’s takeover and promise to restore free speech, reinstating most previously banned accounts.
In November, Twitter CEO Elon Musk laid off half of the company’s 8,000 employees after firing the executives who made some of the most controversial content moderation decisions, such as former Head of Legal Policy, Trust, and Safety Vijaya Gadde, who was a large part of the decision to remove former President Donald Trump from the platform.