Facebook and Instagram pushing users to auto-follow Trump and JD Vance

SouthSeb writes: Since yesterday, many users from both Facebook and Instagram (both owned by Mark Zuckerberg's Meta) are reporting that their accounts started to auto-follow Trump and JD Vance on the social media apps.

Official FB explanation was that these users were previously following the official POTUS and VP profiles, which just changed hands.

But plenty of users are challenging that statement. According to them, they never followed any of these accounts. Also, they claim they tried to unfollow them just to find in the next few hours that they were being followed again.

Some people also noted that the "changing hands" explanation may not be true because the previously Biden and Harris accounts got actually archived.