Most musicians in Brazil are still on #Instagram because well they kinda have to because every show (by a non rich & famous artist) ends with “Follow me on Insta @ something ”. I understand it’s not easy for them to leave, even now.
I was just told by one of them a lot of their accounts suddenly started automatically following JD Vance unwillingly. They are all from the opposite political spectrum — and wouldn’t care much about a foreign prime minister anyway. WTF.
@santiago
> started automatically following JD Vance unwillingly
For real?! 😲 A setup like this is just… vile!
@m0xee I wouldn’t have believed it but a friend told me in person today here at home (he has an account, I don’t). And he personally knows these musicians in and has no doubt about their political opinions. No chance in hell they’d follow this guy.
It seems so dumb & counterproductive. I mean it’s not the right target public, not the right country or language either.
Then again didn’t #Musk force his Tweets onto everyone too at some point ?
@santiago
As bad as Facebook is, turns out, there is a much simpler explanation for this: these people have been following the official government accounts and not private accounts of former, in this case vice president. As Trump's team is taking over, the accounts got transfered to them, some even got "automatically subscribed" to Trump himself 🤣
https://apnews.com/article/facebook-instagram-follows-trump-jd-vance-potus-flotus-60e61a65b7d37a9b8b30c3b3b58768a7
@m0xee Oh, that makes a lot of sense indeed. I didn't even think about this — and neither did they because they were quite upset.
Maybe they followed Kamala's account when she was a candidate and she posted from official vice president account. I'll remember to ask said friend next wednesday!
I would have imagined it wasn't legal for her to post candidacy stuff from the official account but they probably got mixed up at some point.
@santiago
The way I discovered this is also quite interesting: Russian state media uses every opportunity to spread chaos and misinformation, they also almost always lie and they have picked up the "automatically followed JD Vance/Trump/Melania" story, this in turn piqued the interest of fact checkers working for the media covering Russia which I trust and… Here it is!
@santiago
It all coincided with "technical issues" (no way to confirm whether they indeed are, but this is what Facebook claims) when people couldn't search for certain hash tags (republican, democrat) which gave further rise to conspiracy theories.
What can I say, this sure doesn't make the likes of Facebook any more trustworthy, but falling for conspiracies is even worse 🤷
