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More than 11,000 jobs have been slashed in a mass cull at Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
Meta, the parent company of the global social media sites, has confirmed it plans to cut the jobs as part of a major restructuring of the tech giant.
The cuts will reduce the size of the company’s workforce by about 13%, with around 400 staff losing their jobs as Meta’s base in Ireland where 3,000 staff are based.
Meta founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said the cuts were “some of the most difficult changes we’ve made in Meta’s history”.