Among those is popstar Gracie Abrams, who took to Instagram to reassure her followers. “I had t unfollow @vp and @potus three separate times today because [Meta] kept automatically refollowing the accounts,” she said on Instagram stories. “How curious! Had to block them in order to make sure I am nowhere near that.”

Users plan week-long boycott of the platform after it announces the removal of fact-checkers and sparks controversy.

Demi Lovato shared to her Instagram story that she claims to have unfollowed JD Vance on the VP US government official account twice and the platform won’t let her do it, calling it ‘shady business’. Cara Delevingne also posted a screenshot to her story claiming that it’s ‘happening to me’. So what is actually going on?

Meta offers TikTok creators financial incentives, longer Reels video durations, and new editing tools to entice them to Instagram and Facebook amidst TikTok's uncertainty in the US. Despite potential resistance due to Meta's perceived political affiliations,

Instagram has introduced major updates, including extending Reels to three minutes, replacing square profile grids with rectangular ones, and showing liked Reels to friends.

Meta hasn't mentioned TikTok by name, but its new "Breakthrough bonus programme" is trying to appeal to creators using its competitors' platforms.

Meta-owned Instagram has been wooing creators from TikTok as the China-based video-snippet sharing app's future remains uncertain in the United States. - Temporary reprieve - The campaign to get TikTok stars to switch allegiance to Reels comes as TikTok's future in the United States remains unsettled.

While TikTok already returned its US operations thanks to the massive support the incoming President Donald J. Trump pledged, CapCut is yet to be reinstated and be available on mobile app platforms.

In the days before TikTok went dark, Instagram and Facebook released a flurry of new features and ran advertisements promoting its platforms as a comparable alternative.

The lefty account holders were left dumbfounded when posts from the country’s newly sworn-in leaders appeared on their feeds despite never hitting follow for either Trump or Vance.

TikTok has officially shut down after being banned in the United States. The app is now unusable, but TikTok is working to resolve it.