Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, denies claims that its platforms forced users to follow the accounts of President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance.
Many users had complained that their accounts followed Trump and Vance automatically after they were sworn into office.
Meta in a statement on Wednesday reassured users that the company isn’t forcing the follows or controlling their accounts.
“People were not made to automatically follow any of the official Facebook or Instagram accounts for the President, Vice President or First Lady,” Meta spokesperson Andy Stone wrote in a statement on Instagram Threads.
Stone said that when an administration changes, the official White House social media accounts roll over to the new president and vice president….