{"id":660334,"date":"2025-04-03T06:45:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T03:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/you-might-be-following-second-lady-usha-vance-on-instagram-now\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T06:45:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T03:45:04","slug":"you-might-be-following-second-lady-usha-vance-on-instagram-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/you-might-be-following-second-lady-usha-vance-on-instagram-now\/","title":{"rendered":"You might be following Second Lady Usha Vance on Instagram now"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Starting Wednesday, Meta says it will begin combining the Instagram accounts of the Second Lady of the United States, Usha Vance, and the former Second Gentleman of the United States, Doug Emhoff.<\/p>\n

As a result, the 1.2 million people who were previously following the Instagram account of Kamala Harris\u2019s husband, @secondgentleman46archive<\/a> (recently archived by the government), will now be following J. D. Vance\u2019s wife on her newly created account, @SLOTUS<\/a>. As of the time of writing, her account has less than 66,000 followers.<\/p>\n

\u201cFollowing the White House creating an account for the Second Lady, we are transitioning the Second Gentleman account to @SLOTUS,\u201d said a Meta spokesperson in a statement to TechCrunch. \u201cThis is consistent with our process for presidential transitions and with the process we followed for the President, VP, FLOTUS, and The White House accounts earlier this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Trump took office in January, a lot of users were confused<\/a> as to why they were suddenly following President Trump on Facebook and Instagram when they hadn\u2019t explicitly requested to do so. At the time, Meta explained this was part of a regular process in which White House social media<\/a> accounts, including their followers, are handed over to the new administration when a new president takes office.<\/p>\n

Usha Vance is obtaining the former Second Gentleman\u2019s Instagram followers now because the White House only recently created her @SLOTUS account, according to Meta. The first post on the Second Lady\u2019s Instagram account is dated March 10, and Meta says she does not have an official Facebook account at this time.<\/p>\n

Be aware that if you try to unfollow @SLOTUS on Instagram, your request may not immediately go through. <\/p>\n

Meta says it may \u201ctake some time\u201d to process follow and unfollow requests around the @SLOTUS account during this transition. It seems likely that users flood Meta with a barrage of follow and unfollow requests in these account transitions, which slows things down.<\/p>\n

Meta insists it never forces users to \u201cauto-follow\u201d accounts without a user\u2019s consent. In this case, Meta says the White House itself controls these official accounts, and it\u2019s simply assisting them in the presidential transition.<\/p>\n

While these White House social media accounts change hands every four years, they tend to create widespread confusion every time. Many users forget they ever followed an official White House account in the first place, especially if they had done so four years ago when the previous administration took office.<\/p>\n

However, it becomes much more evident which White House accounts you\u2019re following when the new administration, which may not be the party you voted for, takes over.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n