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Meta denies 'forcing' people to follow Donald Trump and JD Vance on social media apps

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Users on Facebook and Instagram claim they were "automatically" following accounts of Donald Trump and JD Vance .

Claims come after Mark Zuckerberg's Meta made policy changes to its apps which better aligned them with the Trump administration.

But Meta has denied it forced anyone to follow the accounts, and highlighted that the president and vice president's accounts are linked to US offices.

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