Shortly after Trump was sworn as president, Facebook users reported their accounts were forced to automatically follow him. Not exactly.

It was true that, as of this writing, there were no videos featuring ASL interpreters on the White House's website or its YouTube page. However, the posts making the claim imply that Trump specifically ordered the removal of these videos,

Some Facebook and Instagram users are now following President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance's pages, despite not following them before the inauguration. Here's why.

Some Facebook users claimed the platform forced their personal accounts to follow President Trump after his inauguration. We VERIFY what likely happened.

Facebook and Instagram users have accused Meta of artificially boosting Trump's follower count by forcing people to follow him in the wake of Monday's inauguration. The issue was raised after several people discovered that their accounts were following the president despite them having given no indication that this was something they'd like to do.

Meta said Facebook and Instagram users were not forced to follow Trump but that unfollowing the new White House accounts 'might take some time.'

In the days since Donald Trump assumed office, many people online have begun expressing alarm to find they were unwittingly following Trump on Instagram and Facebook.

Michael Fanone, a former Washington, D.C., police officer who was attacked during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, cursed out Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the anti-government group the Oath Keepers, during an appearance Wednesday on CNN. As Fanone was appearing on the network to discuss President Trump’s pardon of the Jan. 6…

Some Meta users said that they believed they were forced to follow Donald Trump and JD Vance’s pages, and that Instagram was blocking searches for the #democrat hashtag.

Editor’s note: Several VERIFY readers also reported a separate issue of automatically refollowing the White House accounts on Facebook and Instagram after unfollowing them. VERIFY staff were ...

The Trump White House rolled out a new social media account intended to hold "fake news accountable," Fox News Digital learned.

The lefty account holders were left dumbfounded when posts from the country’s newly sworn-in leaders appeared on their feeds despite never hitting follow for either Trump or Vance.