Meta, Trump and Instagram

Fact Check: Is Meta Making Users Follow Trump's and JD Vance's Instagrams?
Instagram users claimed they were being signed up to follow Donald Trump and JD Vance's accounts automatically.
Why Are Meta Users Automatically Following Trump and Vance On Its Platforms? Here’s What We Know
In an unexpected twist, following President Donald Trump’s 2025 inauguration, Instagram and Facebook users began noticing their accounts automatically following official profiles of the new administration,
Meta says it's not automatically making users' accounts follow Trump on Instagram and Facebook
It said follow and unfollow requests may take time as the accounts switch hands to the new Trump administration.
Fact Check: Unpacking Claims Meta Forced Facebook Users To Follow Trump and Vance
Following the 2025 inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump, Facebook parent company Meta forced users to follow him and Vice President JD Vance.
Here's why you might already be following Donald Trump, JD Vance on Instagram, Facebook
Following the inauguration, many people went on social media to find that they were following the new president.
Trump and Vance see Instagram followers plummet after backlash
Instagram users have led a campaign to unfollow the new president and vice president en masse after backlash against the app’s parent company. Users noticed the day after the inauguration, that many were unknowingly following Trump and Vance’s official accounts.
Here’s Why You’re Suddenly Following Donald Trump on Instagram, Even if You Didn’t Want To
It may take some time for follow and unfollow requests to go through as these accounts change hands.” Essentially, if you ...
Meta pushes back on claims that it's boosting Trump on Facebook and Instagram
Some Meta users said that they believed they were forced to follow Donald Trump and JD Vance’s pages, and that Instagram was ...
Meta denies forcing users to follow Trump accounts
Meta, the company which owns social media networks Facebook and Instagram, has denied forcing users to follow official ...
Trump calls out big banks and sides with Apple and Meta in a speech to the world's most powerful leaders at Davos
Trump's virtual appearance at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos was full of promises and threats.
Trump Blasts EU Regulators for Targeting Apple, Google, Meta
US President Donald Trump blasted European Union regulators for targeting Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Meta ...
Demi Lovato & Gracie Abrams Call Out “Shady” Meta For Blocking Them From Unfollowing Donald Trump & JD Vance; Tech Company Admits Problem
Demi Lovato and Gracie Abrams called out Meta for not letting them unfollow social media accounts for Donald Trump and JD ...
Some Trump voters are skeptical of his opening moves to embrace fellow billionaires
Some of President Donald Trump's working-class and middle-class supporters see a lack of emphasis on lowering consumer costs ...
Donald Trump says DeepSeek should be a ‘wake-up call’ for U.S. tech giants—and sees bombshell China AI advances as a good thing
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek rocked the U.S. tech sector by releasing an AI model that appeared to rival those built by ...