The tech giant is making smaller cuts across various departments - which also include Reality Labs - as the company undergoes reorganisations within certain teams.

In a statement to The Verge, Meta spokesperson Dave Arnold said: "Today, a few teams at Meta are making changes to ensure resources are aligned with their long-term strategic goals and location strategy.

“This includes moving some teams to different locations, and moving some employees to different roles."

He insisted the company would "work hard" to ensure anyone whose job is "eliminated" can be placed in a different role.

Arnold added: "In situations like this when a role is eliminated, we work hard to find other opportunities for impacted employees.”

Earlier this year, there had already been a small number of cuts in the Reality Labs division.

In 2022, Meta let 11,000 go after an overoptimistic projection about its growth following the COVID-19 pandemic.

And in 2023, co-founder Mark Zuckerberg's so-called "year of efficiency" saw another 10,000 people laid off.

Last year, he described the 2022 revenue growth collapse as a "humbling wakeup call".

He added: "Higher interest rates lead to the economy running leaner, more geopolitical instability leads to more volatility, and increased regulation leads to slower growth and increased costs of innovation. “Given this outlook, we’ll need to operate more efficiently than our previous headcount reduction to ensure success.”