{"id":1955,"date":"2025-01-25T07:37:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T07:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/why-you-might-suddenly-be-following-trump-on-instagram-and-facebook\/"},"modified":"2025-01-25T07:37:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T07:37:13","slug":"why-you-might-suddenly-be-following-trump-on-instagram-and-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/why-you-might-suddenly-be-following-trump-on-instagram-and-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Why You Might Suddenly Be Following Trump on Instagram and Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Tuesday, the day after the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump, many Instagram and Facebook users found themselves following him on the social media apps even though they had not signed up to do so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">What gives?<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@andymstone\/post\/DFECLO8xmV5\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> it was part of a regular process in which White House social media accounts are handed over when a new president takes office. It added that there were some other bugs in the process that may have mucked up the gears of the transition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Let\u2019s walk through what happened.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-29a17f42\">Why am I following Donald Trump, Melania Trump and JD Vance on Instagram and Facebook?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Just as the federal government has to deal with the transition of power between administrations, Meta has to deal with it, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For years, companies like Meta and X \u2014 previously known as Facebook and Twitter, respectively \u2014 have had to handle the social media accounts held by the office of the president as it changed hands after an election. That ramped up after Barack Obama took office in 2008 and fully embraced social media to garner support from voters digitally. By 2016, the companies needed to figure out how to hand those accounts off between administrations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Meta and X decided that the official POTUS, VP and first lady accounts on Facebook, Instagram and X would be switched to the new administration while retaining the existing followers of those accounts. That meant that if you followed President Obama in 2016, you were automatically switched over to follow President Trump when he took office in his first administration in 2017. Mr. Obama\u2019s posts were archived under a different handle, while Mr. Trump\u2019s account reset with none of Mr. Obama\u2019s old posts attached.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That transition occurred again in 2020, when Joseph R. Biden Jr. was elected and took over the official presidential account. On Monday, after Mr. Trump was sworn in, the switch occurred again. That\u2019s why you may be seeing his posts in your feed now.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-150be75e\">But I swear I wasn\u2019t following any presidential accounts before.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Lots of people have said this week that they never followed Mr. Biden or Mr. Trump before and are sure they have been added as followers against their will.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Meta said it wasn\u2019t forcing people to follow Mr. Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cPeople were not made to automatically follow any of the official Facebook or Instagram accounts for the president, vice president or first lady,\u201d Andy Stone, a Meta spokesman, said in a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@andymstone\/post\/DFImiJsPblY\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">statement on Threads<\/a>. \u201cThose accounts are managed by the White House so with a new administration, the content on those pages changes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One possible explanation: Four years between administrations is a long time and people can forget what accounts they signed up to follow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-302a7dc\">When I try to unfollow these accounts, the apps won\u2019t let me. What\u2019s up with that?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">This is where it\u2019s not you, it\u2019s Meta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The company said it \u201cmay take some time for follow and unfollow requests to go through\u201d as the account transitions occur. It is possible that the company is receiving such a high volume of unfollow requests during the transition that it is running into errors processing them all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Meta claims it will be sorted out soon, but declined to go into detail on why it was happening.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-6ab7f0ea\">Why am I seeing recommendations to follow President Trump\u2019s and Vice President Vance\u2019s accounts?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">This is another instance of a sweeping change at Meta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The company previously insisted that users did not want to see political content across its apps and had removed that type of content on Facebook, Instagram and Threads. That meant people saw fewer posts and accounts related to politicians and contentious social issues. It was Meta\u2019s way of making its platform seem, well, a bit nicer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But this year, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta\u2019s chief executive, did an about-face and started reinserting political content into people\u2019s feeds. He and others at Meta said that was because they heard people wanted to see more political content again. The change was part of a larger shift at Meta to allow more types of posts and content to spread across its platform in the Trump era.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">You can change <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/help.instagram.com\/339680465107440\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">your settings<\/a> in Facebook and Instagram to see fewer political posts.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-5436f69b\">I\u2019m also seeing people talk about censoring Democrats on social media. What is that about?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Add this one to the list of Meta\u2019s screw-ups.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Tuesday, people began noticing that they could not search for posts that included the hashtag \u201c#democrats\u201d on some of Meta\u2019s apps. That, along with the new Trump administration and Mr. Zuckerberg\u2019s recent embrace of Mr. Trump, led people to believe that the company was forcing posts from Democrats out of their apps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Not true, Meta said, adding it had made an unfortunate error that it was working quickly to fix. Mr. Stone <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@andymstone\/post\/DFFpZ0ZRbSY\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> that because of the error, users were unable to search for a gamut of topics and the mistake was affecting \u201cnot just those on the left.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/22\/technology\/personaltech\/trump-instagram-facebook.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, the day after the inauguration of President Donald J. 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