Some social media sites and apps like to cut off the sides to fit content onto different screen sizes and aspect ratios.
I think adding a border is an attempt to preserve the essential parts of the images in those situations. It really should not be necessary, but alas modern/stupid problems require modern/stupid solutions.
This is a more generous explanation than my cynical first assumption, that they were trying to get away with saving lower res pictures to save on storage costs.
I think adding a border is an attempt to preserve the essential parts of the images in those situations. It really should not be necessary, but alas modern/stupid problems require modern/stupid solutions.