diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3ff247201cc..fabd95b8c0c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -118,6 +118,8 @@ Ansible Changes By Release
   (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/31092)
 * Fix win_find failing on files it can't access, change behaviour to be more
   like the find module (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/31898)
+* Amended tracking of 'changed'
+  https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/31812
 
 <a id="2.4.1"></a>
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/executor/task_result.py b/lib/ansible/executor/task_result.py
index 8cea14380d2..232a45d94f4 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/executor/task_result.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/executor/task_result.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ from copy import deepcopy
 from ansible.parsing.dataloader import DataLoader
 from ansible.vars.manager import strip_internal_keys
 
-_IGNORE = ('changed', 'failed', 'skipped')
+_IGNORE = ('failed', 'skipped')
 
 
 class TaskResult:
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/callback/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/callback/__init__.py
index 76bafd59326..0376253a238 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/callback/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/callback/__init__.py
@@ -218,7 +218,10 @@ class CallbackBase(AnsiblePlugin):
 
     def _clean_results(self, result, task_name):
         ''' removes data from results for display '''
-        pass
+        if task_name in ['debug']:
+            for remove_key in ('invocation'):
+                if remove_key in result:
+                    del result[remove_key]
 
     def set_play_context(self, play_context):
         pass
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/callback/default.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/callback/default.py
index 03c5f495b5b..2cd5cb6e857 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/callback/default.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/callback/default.py
@@ -95,6 +95,8 @@ class CallbackModule(CallbackBase):
         else:
 
             if (self._display.verbosity > 0 or '_ansible_verbose_always' in result._result) and '_ansible_verbose_override' not in result._result:
+                if result._task.action == 'debug' and 'changed' in result._result:
+                    del result._result['changed']
                 msg += " => %s" % (self._dump_results(result._result),)
             self._display.display(msg, color=color)