After President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday, Jan. 20, some Facebook users reported that their personal accounts automatically followed the new president.
Some people claimed Facebook forced their personal accounts to follow Trump. One user claimed Facebook is “adding people to follow” the official pages for Trump, Vice President JD Vance and First Lady Melania Trump “without consent.”
Meghan Bragg digs into this: https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/verify/social-media/facebook-accounts-auto-follow-trump-what-we-can-verify/536-62eb13c1-e06b-4281-bf45-8a1464be4195