President Joe Biden's name was omitted from a Google search result of "U.S. Presidents in order." The glitch was fixed quickly.
This latest incident joins a wave of reported issues across social platforms as tech giants and users navigate the new political landscape
In a recent incident, Google suffered a technical glitch that briefly erased former US President Joe Biden from its list of American Presidents. The problem, which was subsequently blamed on a 'data error,' triggered a heated debate on the tech giant's capacity to manage politically sensitive information.
Users began sharing screenshots on X/Twitter about the apparent anomaly while conducting a cursory search on the Sundar Pichai-led tech giant’s search engine. “ Google has deleted Joe Biden for real ,” netizens alleged.
A Google glitch led to the temporary omission of former US President Joe Biden’s name from the US Presidents search results.
Social media users claimed omitting Joe Biden's name was big tech's latest attempt to cosy up to Donald Trump.
Users Wednesday night noticed Google search results omitted President Joseph Biden from list of U.S. presidents.
For a brief period early Thursday Google’s search results for "US Presidents" erased Biden from history, listing Trump as the last two-term president.
Google faced backlash after a glitch omitted Joe Biden from the list of US presidents, leading to accusations of bias.
Republican Donald Trump was inaugurated as president on Monday, succeeding Democrat Joe Biden. Yet on Thursday, the Meta AI chatbot was still saying that Biden was president, according to the source and to a Reuters test of the service. Asked by Reuters on Thursday to name the president, Meta AI replied:
The glitch, which occurred on Thursday morning, resulted in search results listing President Donald Trump as having served consecutive terms, with no mention of Biden's presidency.