Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is denying that users were ever forced to follow the accounts of President Donald Trump and others in his administration following his inauguration.

Some have claimed their accounts have automatically been made to follow the new US leaders, while others have said they are not being allowed to unfollow them.

There may be some confusion if you find that you are following Trump's accounts automatically on social media.

Just days after Donald Trump’s inauguration, many Instagram and Facebook users found themselves ‘automatically’ following the newly sworn-in President, his deputy JD Vance and First Lady Melania Trump ...

Donald Trump said he would impose high tariffs and further sanctions on Russia if it continued its "ridiculous war".

According to Associated Press report, this automatic follow may have happened because those users were previously following official US government accounts.

Users complained they were automatically been made to follow new president, Vice President JD Vance and first lady Melania ...

Big tech companies like Meta, Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Uber have each donated $1 million for the inauguration ...

On Monday, the biggest names in Silicon Valley, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai ...

The company also said it was working to resolve an issue where some words, including "Democrats" and "Republican," were ...

On January 21, the day after the inauguration, chatter started to spread online that Meta was artificially inflating Trump’s ...

Following the 2025 inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump, Facebook parent company Meta forced users to follow him and ...