If you were surprised to see yourself suddenly following President Donald Trump on Instagram and Facebook this week, it’s not because Meta forced you to, the social media company says.

The company also said it was working to resolve an issue where some words, including "Democrats" and "Republican," were blocked from Instagram search.

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.

Some Facebook and Instagram users were surprised this week to find that they were suddenly following the accounts of US President Donald Trump, Melania Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance on Instagram and Facebook.

Some Facebook, Instagram and Threads users are wondering whether to delete their accounts after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s announced changes to content rules and plans to its fact-checking program.

Meta has announced that it's now possible to add WhatsApp to Accounts Center, the company's hub for managing how user information is

Meta is to give users the ability to link their WhatsApp account with Facebook and Instagram, the social media giant has said. The tech giant is launching the ability for users to add WhatsApp to its Meta Accounts Centre,

Meta announced on Tuesday that users will soon be able to add their WhatsApp account to their Accounts Center, a hub where users can manage connected experiences across their Facebook, Instagram, and Meta Quest accounts.

WhatsApp keeps bringing new features for its users every day. Recently, information about a new feature came to light, in which users were going to get the facility to add music to WhatsApp status like Instagram Story.

WhatsApp's status tools are basic, lacking remixing capabilities like Instagram Stories. Nonetheless, Meta just announced that WhatsApp now supports cross-posting status updates to Instagram through Meta's Accounts Center.