Many users discovered they were accidentally following the official social media accounts of the Trump administration after the accounts switched over from the Biden administration. This is a standard practice on platforms like Facebook and Instagram, ensuring continuity for official government accounts during presidential transitions.
This week, people opened the apps to find new posts from both the president’s and the VP’s official accounts, including an Instagram post from the POTUS account that reads “promises made, promises kept” across an image of Trump, and a photo from Vance’s VP account of Marco Rubio being sworn in as secretary of state.
It even happened in my own circle. As I was tapping through Instagram stories today, I noticed a handful of my friends posting about what they were seeing. Several coworkers also talked about their momentary confusion.
According to Katie Harbath, a previous Facebook employee who helped establish the process for presidential social media page transitions, “The old go to an archived account and the followers remain, but the feed is wiped clean. Most platforms handle it this way,”So, if you were already following the @POTUS account and/or the @VP account, you’ll now be following Trump and Vance instead of Biden and Harris.
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