Facebook users say they are now auto-following Trump after Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg cozied up to new president
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Facebook issues come as Meta said it’s working to resolve issue where Democratic search terms were blocked on Instagram. Facebook users say they’re auto-following President Donald Trump and White House pages after the inauguration of the 47th president amid the rightward turn of Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg.
![[Zuckerberg (seen with Lauren Sanchez) is one of the tech executives who attended Trump’s inauguration. Meta has said it was working to resolve an issue with Instagram that meant that users got a “results hidden” message when they searched for terms related to the Democrats]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/21/11/SEI236736481.jpg)
“Never once have I followed any Trump or White House pages. My feed is now filled with the official posts,” one Reddit user wrote in the Facebook subreddit. “All of a sudden I was following Donald and his wife on fb. Everyone check your page because a few people are saying the same thing and I sure as hell have never looked at their pages. Hoping I took care of that problem,” another user wrote on Facebook.
On the Millenials subreddit, user Piper_Dear wrote, “Facebook made my profile auto-follow Trump.” The user added that they were unable to unfollow the pages. However, in some cases, users may be talking about the POTUS account, which updates to the new president following the inauguration, not Trump’s personal account. This means that if you were following the POTUS account under Biden, that account has now been transferred to Trump, which is also true for the accounts for the vice president and first lady.
This comes as Meta said it was working to resolve an issue with Instagram that meant that users got a “results hidden” message when they searched for terms related to the Democrats. Users across social media have accused Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, of political bias, pointing to the fact that the issue came up following Trump’s inauguration on Monday. Meta owner Mark Zuckerberg attended the inauguration and some surrounding events.
