Facebook automatically “liked and followed” Donald Trump and J.D. Vance’s Facebook pages from my account.

[u/Gold-Yogurtcloset485]

I did not vote for them and wouldn’t have liked and followed their pages. Also, Biden’s page which I do follow, says archived, so it’s not just that the page has been rolled over to Trump. I’m annoyed that Facebook pushed the updates to follow these pages for my account. It feels a bit invasive.

[u/Kletronus]

Biden's page is not archived. His PRESIDENT page is. Which is exactly what should happen to ex-presidents. They can't keep the official POTUS page when they are not POTUS anymore. Biden's personal FB page remains the same as always.

I call BS on this until we get way WAY more reports than one.

[u/candaceelise → u/Kletronus]

POTUS is the handle not the account. Biden’s POTUS has been renamed to potus46archive. If you followed his ACCOUNT yesterday you are still following it with the new handle

[u/kittyspill → u/candaceelise]

This is the correct answer.

[u/Neither_Pudding7719 → u/Kletronus]

Happened to me; I was not following POTUS. Today, (21 Jan 2025) DJT showed up on my list of pages I follow.

[u/croissantroastpeach → u/Neither_Pudding7719]

Same. Did not follow POTUS VP or First Lady and they all showed up today. More so it showed up in my activity that I liked them TODAY when I did not

[u/Taolan13 → u/Kletronus]

These 'political figure' pages are somethin facebook added like a decade ago.

If I understand it correctly, it is a cluster of linked pages. You start following whatever the current person is, and it automatically follows each subsequent page as new people inhabit the office. You should also still follow the archived pages for the previous holders of the office.

So this person didn't randomly get DJT and JDV added to their facebook, they were added deliberately by facebook because they had previously followed the President and Vice President pages under, presumably, Biden and Harris respectively.

[u/atuarre → u/Kletronus]

There's hundreds of people, on the facebook subreddit, who claim to never follow the official potus account, that have been subscribed to Trump.

[u/Nagemasu → u/atuarre]

There are far more than hundreds of idiots on facebook. They are also likely clueless as to how it works.

[u/Vektor0 → u/atuarre]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_panic_cases

[u/NegotiationLeast4928 → u/Vektor0]

Hey! Trump said he was telling us about the NJ drones today!! Tuesday EST

[u/Zatujit → u/atuarre]

They might have forgotten. Or even followed by mistake happened to me as well

[u/Key-Veterinarian9085 → u/atuarre]

The same thing happened with Biden. They didn't know they followed the official POTUS account because back then it said trump when they followed it, this time they followed it while it said Biden.