Biden will get official Facebook accounts even if Trump won’t concede

Facebook has followed Twitter in confirming that the presidential accounts on their respective platforms will be transferred from president Donald Trump to president-elect Joe Biden on 20 January.

"In 2017, we worked with both the Obama Administration and incoming Trump Administration to make sure the transition of their Facebook and Instagram accounts was seamless on January 20th, and we expect to do the same here," Facebook said.

The official presidential accounts include @POTUS, as well as @whitehouse, @VP, @FLOTUS, and a number of other official accounts are taxpayer funded. This is in contrast to the president’s personal account, @DonaldTrump, and his corresponding personal Twitter account @realDonaldTrump.

During the election, posts from the president’s personal pages were the most popular posts on Facebook despite the social media company adding warning labels to the posts.