Meta said Facebook and Instagram users were not forced to follow Trump but that unfollowing the new White House accounts 'might take some time.'

Many Instagram users have complained that Meta has automatically enrolled them into following accounts for President Donald Trump without their consent.

It said follow and unfollow requests may take time as the accounts switch hands to the new Trump administration.

A couple of days after Trump's second inauguration, which saw him become the first convicted felon sworn in as President of the United States, some Instagram users are claiming their accounts have automatically followed Trump and his Vice President, JD Vance.

Mark Zuckerberg has come under fire for allegedly making users auto-follow the new White House occupants — now Meta has responded to the claims

Hours after Donald Trump was sworn in as president on Monday, some Instagram and Facebook users started noticing that their accounts were suddenly following Pages associated with the new president, First Lady Melania Trump and Vice President JD Vance.

Instagram users may have trouble searching for some hashtags, according Andy Stone, the head of communications for Meta, the parent company of the social media app. Stone responded on X to a Mashable article which is titled “Is Instagram blocking the #Democrat hashtag?

Meta is denying claims that Facebook and Instagram users are being made to follow the president without consent.

Curious why you automatically follow JD Vance on Instagram? Social media users have been scrambling for answers after noticing their accounts now follow the Vice President and President Trump without prior action.

Meta is pushing back after Facebook and Instagram users claimed to have received notifications that their accounts had automatically followed the official pages of President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance without their consent.

After the POTUS account was switched from Joe Biden to Donald Trump, many of the users reacted surprisingly as one of the posts made it to their feed.