Right after President Donald Trump took his oath of office on Monday, many Facebook users noticed that their accounts seemed to have automatically started following the new president.

One user expressed frustration on Reddit, saying, “Facebook made my profile auto-follow Trump.” Another added sarcastically, “Looks like we are heading towards a full dictatorship.”

The claim quickly gained traction. A different Reddit user tried to clarify the situation: “If you had followed or liked Vice President Kamala Harris or President (Joe) Biden, those accounts were officially transferred today.”

The Facebook pages for the President and the White House are managed by whoever is currently in office. Therefore, users who followed those pages during Biden’s presidency might have been unexpectedly greeted with the “America is Back” video in their news feed.

According to Andy Stone, a spokesperson for Meta, the parent company of Facebook, this is simply how the transition of power works on the platform.

When Biden left office, his POTUS page was archived. Both he and Trump’s POTUS pages have gathered the same number of followers: 11 million.

Katie Harbath, Facebook’s former head of elections who led the handover of social media management, confirmed that this situation was indeed what transpired.

“My team developed the initial processes for this when Trump won in 2016, so we could transfer the official accounts created by President Obama’s team when Facebook pages were initially set up,” she explained on Threads. “The same method was applied during the transition from Trump to Biden. The old accounts go to an archived status, and the followers are retained, but the feed is reset. This is a standard practice across most platforms.”

With Trump in office and Republicans fully in charge of Congress, Mark Zuckerberg and other leaders in tech have indicated their backing for the new government.

While Trump was being sworn in as the 47th president in the Capitol Rotunda, Zuckerberg, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos – collectively nearing a trillion dollars in net worth – were seated in front of Trump’s cabinet appointments and behind his family.

(This story has been updated to include additional information.)