I unfollowed and blocked potus and vp on Insta yesterday morning and they showed up again this morning in my stories.
carty64 on
FWIW, my most recent follows on IG were whitehouse and vp and there’s a 0% chance that I did that on my own
tasimm on
I just deleted my IG and What’s App accounts because of this bs. Meta can kiss my ass.
Epicycler on
We’re entering the end stage of corporate captured social media. It starts with being automatically subscribed to either the personality cults of the dear leaders without your consent or subscribed to incredibly problematic and damning opposition groups, but it will eventually mean that you will have to actively stop your account from speaking on your behalf either in support of the regime or in opposition to it with the inclusion of immoral and unethical positions you would never take in reality and which discredit you in the eyes of others.
mowotlarx on
Inauguration day I made a point to unfollow and block those accounts on Instagram. I am aware that they archive the old ones, this isn’t my first rodeo.
I have had to unfollow and block those accounts 2 more times since Monday. It kept reverting.
warrioroflight69 on
and no one believes them
Resident-Variation21 on
Facebook lies. More at 11
Brave-Cash-845 on
Even on IG I had to block, restrict and unfollow 3 times! The 3rd time I reported them both as hateful speech (block seems to have held)!
Tadpoleonicwars on
The company that is blocking any Democratic hashtags denies that it is also forcing people to follow Donald Trump?
Sure. We’re dumb enough to believe that.
defaultusername-17 on
lying liars lie about lying.
Weightcycycle11 on
META is lying…again. It happened to me multiple times yesterday so today I blocked them all.
NewNewark on
I understand that folks who followed the “potus” or “vp” account would see the profile change from kamala to vance.
But I dont recall those accounts ever being suggested to me, and theyve been pushing it in my recommended all week. Sure, I have a dozen friends who follow those accounts from the last admin, but none of them recently followed them so its not like theyre a hot new account
ICPGr8Milenko on
Interestingly enough, I wasn’t forced to follow him; however, I noticed in my search history that he was my top/latest search. I’ve NEVER searched for him or sought his page out.
FormerChocoAddict on
Having some sys admin background and based on the piecemeal bits of information I’ve gleaned from various people’s experiences, here’s what I think COULD have happened:
Since government positions like POTUS are constantly changing name they have to have a transition process.
1. They took the existing Biden POTUS account and renamed it with the word “archive”.
2. They created a new Trump POTUS account. This is now the official POTUS account.
3. Figuring that people who were following POTUS before would want to follow the new POTUS, they automatically added it as a followed account for all those people. This accounts for the started following date being recent.
4. People forgot that they had followed by Biden POTUS and not realizing this was just intended to be a continuation of that follow, they freaked out thinking that they were forced to follow Trump as pat of some backroom deal. When in fact Facebook was just keeping them following POTUS in general.
5. To implement this update, Facebook puts out a automated job to update accounts with the new POTUS follow. Because they have so many servers in so many places the job is out there continually running for a period of time until all the accounts are updated on all servers. During this interim time people try to unfollow and the automated job refollows for them. And they interpret that as some kind of subterfuge.
Eventually this automated job will cease and the back log of follows and unfollows will catch up.
This could have been avoided this if they had first archived the Biden POTUS content to a new account, and then just renamed the existing account for Trump. Then people would see that they had followed it sometime ago, and see that it’s now named trump, and most people would have realized that it just got renamed for the new president.
SpaceToaster on
My wife noticed that Biden was auto-followed when he became POTUS as well. I believe it is because the account gets rotated, so it looks like a new follow.
chuck_c on
Yeah, they may be saying that but my account auto-followed JD Vance, and then when I unfollowed him, it re-followed him
Bethjam on
I wasn’t following the former nor the current office holders voluntarily. I was, however, magically following them on Monday. I blocked and deleted my accounts. This was on all platforms.
ridemooses on
Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?
Tallgirl4u on
Just delete all of it people. Your device batteries will thank you not to mention your data
MexGrow on
Facebook certainly forces me to see pro-government propaganda (from my country) on my feed every single day despite how many times I set it to “Do not show this content” or whatever the option is.
BananaAvalanche on
Time to wake up and permanently DELETE your Facebook accounts!
JRingo1369 on
>Facebook Says It’s Not Forcing You to Follow Trump
Then it’s safe to assume that they are in fact forcing you to follow Trump.
Banana-phone15 on
Meta & potus is playing a game with us, it’s called “I am not touching you.” Best thing you can do is delete your Facebook, instagram, WhatsApp account.
SirWobblyOfSausage on
Delete your accounts.
Kindly-Maybe8589 on
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. George Orwell, 1984.
SlippySausageSlapper on
My Instagram account started following whitehouse and vp sometime in the past few days. I absolutely did not follow those accounts.
They are blatantly lying.
Fuzzy-Butterscotch86 on
Except my extremely liberal bisexual wife would’ve never followed Trump, or Biden on Instagram and found she was in fact following Trump last night before we both deleted our meta accounts.
So, my guess is, Meta is full of shit.
ramman403 on
It’s like when iTunes forced that U2 song on everyone.
Mycroft_xxx on
BS. My wife can’t stand Trump and all of a sudden she was following Vance and Melania. Not cool
stol_ansikte on
Zuckerberg tried not to be a loser, become an even bigger loser
deicist on
It’s not forcing me to do shit since I deleted it last week.
*Before it was cool*
LigerXT5 on
(Over?) Half my feed is posts from people/pages I don’t follow.
Half of said non-followed people is spewing government, well anything.
CtrlAltDestroy33 on
They’re lying. I didn’t follow any of those pages, I woke up yesterday and I was following them.
I didn’t follow any president, vice president, or first lady previously. I even blocked the danger yam in 2016, and that block was even undone.
They overstepped and now they’re lying about it.
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I unfollowed and blocked potus and vp on Insta yesterday morning and they showed up again this morning in my stories.
FWIW, my most recent follows on IG were whitehouse and vp and there’s a 0% chance that I did that on my own
I just deleted my IG and What’s App accounts because of this bs. Meta can kiss my ass.
We’re entering the end stage of corporate captured social media. It starts with being automatically subscribed to either the personality cults of the dear leaders without your consent or subscribed to incredibly problematic and damning opposition groups, but it will eventually mean that you will have to actively stop your account from speaking on your behalf either in support of the regime or in opposition to it with the inclusion of immoral and unethical positions you would never take in reality and which discredit you in the eyes of others.
Inauguration day I made a point to unfollow and block those accounts on Instagram. I am aware that they archive the old ones, this isn’t my first rodeo.
I have had to unfollow and block those accounts 2 more times since Monday. It kept reverting.
and no one believes them
Facebook lies. More at 11
Even on IG I had to block, restrict and unfollow 3 times! The 3rd time I reported them both as hateful speech (block seems to have held)!
The company that is blocking any Democratic hashtags denies that it is also forcing people to follow Donald Trump?
Sure. We’re dumb enough to believe that.
lying liars lie about lying.
META is lying…again. It happened to me multiple times yesterday so today I blocked them all.
I understand that folks who followed the “potus” or “vp” account would see the profile change from kamala to vance.
But I dont recall those accounts ever being suggested to me, and theyve been pushing it in my recommended all week. Sure, I have a dozen friends who follow those accounts from the last admin, but none of them recently followed them so its not like theyre a hot new account
Interestingly enough, I wasn’t forced to follow him; however, I noticed in my search history that he was my top/latest search. I’ve NEVER searched for him or sought his page out.
Having some sys admin background and based on the piecemeal bits of information I’ve gleaned from various people’s experiences, here’s what I think COULD have happened:
Since government positions like POTUS are constantly changing name they have to have a transition process.
1. They took the existing Biden POTUS account and renamed it with the word “archive”.
2. They created a new Trump POTUS account. This is now the official POTUS account.
3. Figuring that people who were following POTUS before would want to follow the new POTUS, they automatically added it as a followed account for all those people. This accounts for the started following date being recent.
4. People forgot that they had followed by Biden POTUS and not realizing this was just intended to be a continuation of that follow, they freaked out thinking that they were forced to follow Trump as pat of some backroom deal. When in fact Facebook was just keeping them following POTUS in general.
5. To implement this update, Facebook puts out a automated job to update accounts with the new POTUS follow. Because they have so many servers in so many places the job is out there continually running for a period of time until all the accounts are updated on all servers. During this interim time people try to unfollow and the automated job refollows for them. And they interpret that as some kind of subterfuge.
Eventually this automated job will cease and the back log of follows and unfollows will catch up.
This could have been avoided this if they had first archived the Biden POTUS content to a new account, and then just renamed the existing account for Trump. Then people would see that they had followed it sometime ago, and see that it’s now named trump, and most people would have realized that it just got renamed for the new president.
My wife noticed that Biden was auto-followed when he became POTUS as well. I believe it is because the account gets rotated, so it looks like a new follow.
Yeah, they may be saying that but my account auto-followed JD Vance, and then when I unfollowed him, it re-followed him
I wasn’t following the former nor the current office holders voluntarily. I was, however, magically following them on Monday. I blocked and deleted my accounts. This was on all platforms.
Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?
Just delete all of it people. Your device batteries will thank you not to mention your data
Facebook certainly forces me to see pro-government propaganda (from my country) on my feed every single day despite how many times I set it to “Do not show this content” or whatever the option is.
Time to wake up and permanently DELETE your Facebook accounts!
>Facebook Says It’s Not Forcing You to Follow Trump
Then it’s safe to assume that they are in fact forcing you to follow Trump.
Meta & potus is playing a game with us, it’s called “I am not touching you.” Best thing you can do is delete your Facebook, instagram, WhatsApp account.
Delete your accounts.
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. George Orwell, 1984.
My Instagram account started following whitehouse and vp sometime in the past few days. I absolutely did not follow those accounts.
They are blatantly lying.
Except my extremely liberal bisexual wife would’ve never followed Trump, or Biden on Instagram and found she was in fact following Trump last night before we both deleted our meta accounts.
So, my guess is, Meta is full of shit.
It’s like when iTunes forced that U2 song on everyone.
BS. My wife can’t stand Trump and all of a sudden she was following Vance and Melania. Not cool
Zuckerberg tried not to be a loser, become an even bigger loser
It’s not forcing me to do shit since I deleted it last week.
*Before it was cool*
(Over?) Half my feed is posts from people/pages I don’t follow.
Half of said non-followed people is spewing government, well anything.
They’re lying. I didn’t follow any of those pages, I woke up yesterday and I was following them.
I didn’t follow any president, vice president, or first lady previously. I even blocked the danger yam in 2016, and that block was even undone.
They overstepped and now they’re lying about it.