The Biden administration's social media transition led to confusion and accidental followings for many users. While the accounts themselves remained under new management, users unknowingly auto-followed an archive account. This caused many to question their own social media habits and sparked discussions about platform algorithms and search functionalities.
“I had to block that Level 5 clinger 3 different times yesterday,” one reddit user wrote of Vance’s account. When contacted by Vanity Fair, a Meta spokesperson pointed to a statement published by Andy Stone, a spokesperson at Threads, another Meta platform. “People were not made to automatically follow any of the official Facebook or Instagram accounts for the President, Vice President, or First Lady,” the statement reads.
Katie Harbath, the former head of public policy at Meta , seconded Stone’s explanation of the general process of the digital changing of the guard in her own Threads post. “My team set up the first ways of having to do this when Trump won in 2016 and we had to transfer the official accounts that President Obama’s team created when Facebook pages were first created,” she wrote. “Same was done during the transfer from Trump to Biden.
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