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This is not new. I believe they've been doing this as far back as Obama (although it might have been less widespread back then).
What happens if you don’t have any mainstream social media accounts? What happens if you say you don’t have any mainstream social media accounts? What happens if you give them a the handle of a respectable “friend’s” account? How far do they go to actually verify or enforce this?
People going through US immigration (I did this maybe ~20 years ago as a student) will just make a temp, low-use account or something similar.