Meta’s artificial intelligence bots across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were still telling inquisitive users that the US president is Joe Biden – despite Donald Trump’s

According to someone acquainted with the matter, the Facebook owner this week made the incapacity of Meta’s AI chatbot to recognise the current US president an important matter that needed to be resolved quickly.

The inability of Meta's AI chatbot to identify the current president of the United States was elevated to urgent status by the Facebook owner this week, requiring a fast fix, a person familiar with the issue said.

Meta AI chatbot has been embroiled in a controversy after naming Joe Biden as the current President of the United States. Notably, Republican Donald Trump took oath as the 47th US President on 20 January but the AI chatbot from Meta still named his predecessor when asked about the current US President.

This unusual tirade for the introverted Zuckerberg was clearly aimed at displaying his new allegiance and loyalty to Donald Trump and his allies.

Biden was unique among presidents in scoring poorly not just on one or two of the factors academics use for demoting chief executives, but on several: corruption, failure to enforce the law, executive ineptness, incapacity, divisiveness (or lack of moral leadership), and civil liberties violations. Thus:

are now kaput. With Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announcing his social media platforms will no longer "fact-check," a euphemism for banning non-conforming expression, the game is up. Joe Biden and others on the Left are horrified; they so want to control our ...

The issue with the search engine results was noticed by users on social media sites X and Bluesky early on Thursday morning.

Former US President Joe Biden’s presidency was briefly omitted from Google’s list of US presidents. The issue, attributed to a ‘data error’, raised questions about tech giants’ reliability and neutrality in handling politically sensitive content.

On Monday, the biggest names in Silicon Valley, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, joined “First Buddy” Elon Musk to watch Trump be inaugurated as the 47th president. Musk later stole the headlines following an appearance at a rally in which he made an “odd salute”.

This latest incident joins a wave of reported issues across social platforms as tech giants and users navigate the new political landscape

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