Microsoft is laying out dozens of journalists and editorial staff for Microsoft News and MSN.
This latest demobilization is one of Microsoft's steps towards relying on artificial intelligence to choose news and content provided on the MSN website. Com (MSN.com), and in the company's Microsoft News applications.
Many laid-off journalists work for the Search, Advertising and News section, known as SANE, and are hired as human editors to help choose stories.
"Like all companies, we evaluate our business regularly," a Microsoft spokesman said in a statement. "This could increase investment in some places and redeploy elsewhere."
Microsoft says layoffs are not directly related to the Corona virus pandemic, as media companies around the world have been hit hard by declining advertising revenue through television, newspapers, the Internet, and more.
The Business Insider website mentioned the issue of layoffs for the first time last Friday, saying that about fifty jobs were affected in the United States, while the British Guardian newspaper reported that about 27 employees left their jobs in the United Kingdom, after it decided Microsoft stops hiring people to organize articles on its main pages.
Microsoft has been working in the news industry for more than 25 years. It started this field after the launch of the "MSN" website in 1995. Almost two years ago, it launched "Microsoft News", when it announced at the time that there were more than eight hundred editors working from fifty sites around the world.
Microsoft has gradually been moving towards artificial intelligence in recent months, and encourages publishers and journalists to take advantage of artificial intelligence as well. It uses its Microsoft AI technology to search for content, then process and filter it, and even suggest images to the human editor.
Microsoft used editors to organize the best news from a variety of sources to display on Microsoft News, MSN News, and Microsoft Edge.