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

Meta has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by President Donald Trump for $25 million, according to news reports. The settlement reportedly includes $22 million earmarked toward Trump's presidential library, with the remainder going to legal fees and other plaintiffs in the case. Trump reached similar terms with ABC News last month.

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.

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:

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.

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.

President Joe Biden's farewell address included a stark warning about ... as well as with Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Meta's Mark Zuckerberg. Trump has invited all three of the powerful CEOs to his Monday swearing-in ceremony, now moved to be inside the ...

Meta didn’t force users on Facebook, Instagram or Threads to follow Trump and Vance immediately after they assumed office. Users who noted this change likely followed the official U.S. government accounts under former President Joe Biden’s administration.

Some Meta social media users said on Wednesday that their accounts re-followed the profiles of President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and first lady Melania Trump after they had unfollowed those accounts once Trump took office for his second term.

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.

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

Lina Khan, the outgoing chair of the Federal Trade Commission, was appointed by US President Joe Biden to lead the antitrust agency and protect consumers against big tech companies forming monopolies She has been called the voice of the "hipster antitrust" movement,