A Florida man was arrested Friday night for allegedly making online threats to President Donald Trump, according to police.

If your Facebook account appears to have automatically followed President Donald Trump this week, you aren't the only one. Even so, Meta claims this isn't as sinister as it appears, and is in fact the result of routine operations.

Some Facebook and Instagram users were surprised to find themselves automatically following the accounts of President Donald Trump or Vice President JD Vance this week after the president was inaugurated.

In the days since Donald Trump assumed office, many people online have begun expressing alarm to find they were unwittingly following Trump on Instagram and Facebook.

Handing over control of the official presidential and vice presidential social media accounts has become a standard part of the transition process.

Donald Trump assassination rhetoric on social media. The “violent posts” published by Shannon Depararro Atkins on Facebook were reported to the FBI and National Threat Operations Center by an unidentified tipster in Okeechobee,

Shannon Depararro Atkins, 46, admitted writing the posts, but said he was joking. Police did not find any weapons when they arrested him.

Michael Fanone, a former Washington, D.C., police officer who was attacked during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, cursed out Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the anti-government group the Oath Keepers, during an appearance Wednesday on CNN. As Fanone was appearing on the network to discuss President Trump’s pardon of the Jan. 6…

Some Facebook and Instagram users discovered they were following President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance ’s accounts after their inauguration on Monday, Jan. 20. This is likely because they were following White House accounts before Trump and Vance took their oaths of office.

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.