But I do know I can un-follow META. 'Cause I did.

This article mentions Gracie Adams as well

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219934582

Meta is pushing back on claims from social media users who say they've been forced to follow Facebook and Instagram accounts belonging to U.S. President Donald Trump, his wife Melania Trump and Vice-President J.D. Vance.

Stone (META Communications Director) writing on Meta's Threads platform, said the confusion was due to the previous administration giving control of the official @POTUS account to Trump's team.

Anyone who had been following @POTUS during the Biden administration, for example, would still be a follower after control of the account had been handed over to the new administration.


Stone did not directly address claims that some users had to repeatedly unfollow those accounts, but said it "may take some time for follow and unfollow requests to go through as these accounts change hands."

The article goes on to say this happened in the transition from Obama to Trump

where even DUers here chimed in - i.e., in this thread - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143377919

This OP is mentioning the issue with Instagram and whatever quirks happen with that.

The other thing is the "unfollow" vs "block" and it seems, at least here on DU, that people were automatically not just "unfollowing" with their accounts but also "blocking" right away vs what Gracie apparently was willing to do (expecting just the "unfollow" to take care of the problem).

But the LAST piece that you mention - the "transition accounts". There are accounts that explicitly say WHITE HOUSE and then accounts with the President's name and the "@whitehouse" (or whatever extra they added). The "generic" account had been used for "official" announcements, although the "personalized" accounts were also being accepted as "official", as long as they were the @whitehouse version (and not the actual personal/campaign social media account).

So it would seem idiotic to "rename" say the "Barack Obama@whitehouse" account to "45@whitehouse", and leave all those posts in there "blended together", rather than just create a new account with a new name, but still "official" (with the @whitehouse)..

I can see the "generic" "White House" account going from administration to administration, but not the others.

There is absolutely no reason for any other human to be involved in a choice to unfollow EXCEPT THE PERSON UNFOLLOWING AN UNWANTED ACCOUNT. It’s called Software.

I’ve deleted it twice and it keeps coming back. I am not sharing any such post nor have I posted on any such site.