The company will shed roughly 3,600 roles but plans to backfill the roles later in the year.

Users will no longer be able to opt out of political content from people they do not follow.

Meta says its platforms will instead rely on "community notes" from its users, an approach pioneered by X.

He will be replaced by Republican Joel Kaplan, a former White House deputy chief of staff under President Bush.

When I left my late grandmother's necklace on a bus, a group of internet strangers helped me get it back.

New users? New algorithms? Or something else going on behind the scenes? The story behind the new changes on the social media site

It appears to be the latest attempt by the Meta boss to build a closer relationship with the incoming president.

The long-awaited decision follows a standoff with Meta, and succeeds a world-first law from 2021.