Change favicon and title consistently on blogdown site - r

I am new to blogdown and haven't done any other work with website creation so apologies if this stuff seems really beginner level!
I have defined the title of my blog in config.toml and I've saved my favicon image in my static directory as favicon.ico. When my blog is opened, the tab shows the right icon and title. Great!
The problem is that when I copy a link to a post in a way that shows a preview, sometimes the favicon and title will default to the theme's standard ones - so simply 'Title' and the hyde-hyde favicon. The behaviour varies a little - for e.g. in slack, both these things are back to the example, whereas in Whatsapp, it seems to keep my post's title but not the favicon.
I've tried using this answer, which is how I got the favicon working in my tab, but I still have the issue with the post previews. I haven't been able to work out the second option as I don't know where the element is in the hyde-hyde theme.
Can anybody tell me how to fix this across platforms?
I'm not sure how one would make a reproducible example of this, but if there is specific stuff (like code from certain files or more info) that would be useful let me know and I'll provide it.

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I am just a random stranger on the internet, but I have to thank you guys! Your solution fixed a problem on my site that has bugged me for ages!

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