US President Donald Trump and US Vice President JD Vance.

Doireann Garrihy is one of several high-profile people who have accused Meta of making them follow Donald Trump and JD Vance on Instagram.

Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has official accounts for the US President, Vice President, and First Lady - with the official accounts now belonging to Donald Trump, JD Vance, and Melania Trump, while the accounts belonging to Joe Biden, Dr. Jill Biden, and Kamala Harris being archived.

However, while some people who had followed the Bidens/Harris accounts are now following the Trumps/Vance, others who never followed the POTUS, FLOTUS, and VP accounts have found that they’re now following Mr. Trump, Mrs. Trump, or Mr. Vance - including "Dancing with the Stars" co-host Doireann Garrihy.

Taking to her Instagram story on Wednesday, Doireann pointed out that she was following the official Vice President account belonging to Mr. Vance — and although she was following the account when it belonged to Kamala Harris, she pointed out that she had unfollowed the account three separate times.

"This is mad. I’ve had to unfollow three times since last night! Check if your’e following him but didn’t actually follow him," Doireann said, after she received a DM from a follower saying that they believe Mr. Vance is ‘buying followers’ — including saying that his follower count jumped up by over a million in mere minutes.

"Some people saying [in my DMs] that that would have been the vice president Kamala Harris’ Instagram page, and it’s automatically changed to him," Doireann added in a follow up video. "But that doesn’t explain me re-following or being a re-follower without actually re-following after I unfollowed. Bananas."

Doireann Garrihy's Instagram story.

Influencer Niamh Cullen also said that she is now automatically following the new accounts, who said that despite never following any accounts to do with US Politics, she now found herself following both Mr. Trump and Mr. Vance.

"WTF this is so wild," Niamh wrote on her story. "I never followed [Mr Vance] or anything to do with American politics," before sharing a screenshot of her following Mr Trump - adding "this is so scary???? WTF. Obviously unfollowed but was NEVER following them."

Niamh Cullen's Instagram story.

The previous accounts which belonged to former President Mr. Biden, his wife Dr. Jill Biden, and former VP Kamala Harris, have since been archived following Mr. Trump’s inauguration, with those accounts now being @potus46archive, @flotus46archive, and @vp46archive.

The current @POTUS, @FLOTUS, and @VP accounts were registered in 2025, according to Instagram’s ‘check account’ feature.

A statement from Meta told GeekIreland: "This is standard practice that the accounts automatically change whenever the administration changes hand," before sharing a post from Threads - Meta’s version of Twitter/X - saying, "A reminder: the Facebook.com/POTUS and Facebook.com/White… accounts are managed by the White House. They change when the occupant of the White House changes."

When it comes to claims that people are automatically re-following the accounts after consciously unfollowing them, Meta added, "this is something we are currently investigating."

*This article was originally published on Extra.ie.