Newsweek’s interim chief content officer Johnathan Davis tried to quell an angry staff Tuesday — but may have only thrown gas on the fire, The Post has learned.

One day after firing editor Bob Roe, executive editor Ken Li and investigative reporter Celeste Katz, Davis held a late Tuesday meeting with the news site’s staff, sources said.

But at least one person at the 90-minute meeting described the get-together as “bats–t crazy.”

Davis — who is a member of the church whose financial ties to the news site’s parent company, Newsweek Media Group, are said by sources to be a subject of interest to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office — told staffers at the meeting that he was never contacted before Roe and Li assigned reporters to probe any possible church-NMG ties.

The Manhattan DA has been investigating possible ties between NMG and a Christian church community headed by the Rev. David Jang and a college founded by his followers, Olivet University.

Olivet has denied any connection between the two.

On Jan. 18, two dozen investigators from the DA’s office raided NMG’s lower Manhattan offices and took 18 computer servers, sources said.

At the Tuesday meeting, Davis urged staffers to thank Olivet University for the help it gave the company in the early days, an insider at the meeting told The Post.

At the conclusion of the meeting, he urged that staffers should all “join hands and cross the finish line together.” Another source said it was meant figuratively, and there was not an actual joining of hands.

Davis, a co-owner of NMG, recently rejoined daily operations as the interim CCO after Dayan Candappa, who had been serving in that role, was suspended following sexual harassment allegations leveled by a reporter who worked with him at a previous employer.

The complaint, lodged while both worked at Reuters, contributed to Candappa getting fired from the global news service.

Davis and Etienne Uzac co-founded IBT Media, which changed its name to NMG. Both left day-to-day operations at the company after a cash crisis hit in mid-2016.

When Uzac stepped down as CEO, Dev Pragad was named to the post — a job he still holds.

Uzac and his wife, Marion Kim, who was director of finance at Newsweek, resigned last week. Uzac remained NMG’s chairman after stepping down as CEO.

Davis and Uzac remain part-owners.

A second NMG reporter, David Sirota, resigned Tuesday.

“I am deeply upset about the news that has come out about IBT/Newsweek, but I am honored to have been able to work with a superb team of truly professional editors and reporters,” Sirota wrote in a farewell note to his newsletter followers. “They were instrumental in giving me the space and support that allowed me to produce serious award-winning investigative journalism under extremely difficult circumstances.”

Sirota, a father of two, had just under four years at the publication. He said he hopes another media operation seeking an investigative reporter will hire him.

On Monday, Matt Cooper, a veteran of Newsweek from its glory days in the ’90s — and a star reporter at Time for 15 years — resigned amid the upheaval.

Cooper had returned to Newsweek in 2014 when the new owners took over.