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Joe Biden

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145 articles accelerating

Biden’s 2023 AI executive order became a defining policy marker, then a central target of Trump’s 2025 deregulatory reversal.

Who they are

Joe Biden appears in this coverage principally as the U.S. president whose administration set technology, competition, privacy, cybersecurity and platform-policy agendas. Stories connect him to the White House, federal regulators and companies including Meta, TikTok, Google and Apple, as well as to the political contrast with Donald Trump.

The recent arc

Recent coverage peaked in 2024Q2, while the larger recent transition is from Biden-era policymaking to coverage of its aftermath under Trump. The core policy record includes Biden’s 2023 generative-AI executive order, which directed NIST and DHS work on safety, privacy and labor protections; his Privacy Shield 2.0 order; antitrust pressure that contextualized the DOJ’s Live Nation case; and planned cybersecurity requirements for government monitoring, procurement, AI use and foreign-hacker penalties.

Since 2025, Biden is more often the reference point for reversals, disputes and policy inheritance. Reuters reported that Trump revoked the 2023 AI order, while coverage of TikTok focuses on how Trump used the law Biden signed or faced, and the SEC rescinded rules proposed during the Biden administration. The most recent Venmo stories invoke the 2021 discovery of Biden’s account as context for the service’s default privacy change, illustrating how his presence has shifted from active decision-maker to a marker of earlier policy and privacy debates.

The tension

The central tension is between Biden’s use of executive and regulatory power to impose guardrails on technology markets and platforms, and a subsequent Trump-led rollback or repurposing of that framework. That conflict runs through AI policy, crypto enforcement, TikTok, federal technology governance and competition policy; it also intersects with platform accountability, as Biden criticized Meta’s decision to end third-party fact-checking in the U.S. and had earlier revoked Trump-era TikTok and WeChat bans for review.

Why it matters

Biden’s coverage maps how much U.S. technology policy can be established through executive action and agency rulemaking, but also how exposed that approach is to a change in administration. If the rollback pattern continues, companies and regulators will contend not only with changing compliance expectations in AI, crypto, privacy and procurement, but with the possibility that Biden-era measures remain politically salient even when they are no longer operative.

Joe Biden has appeared in 145 articles since 2015-03. Coverage peaked in 2024Q2 with 9 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Biden, Trump, Twitter, Facebook.

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Coverage Timeline

2025-11-04
Decrypt 23 related

When asked on 60 Minutes about his pardon of Binance's Changpeng Zhao, President Trump said “I don't know who he is” and “I heard it was a Biden witch hunt”

but CBS cuts it from broadcast Caitlin Keith / Deseret News : 3 takeaways from Trump's ‘60 Minutes’ interview: Trump says he doesn't know who Binance founder Changpeng Zhao is Steven Walgenbach / Insi...

2025-09-24
Washington Post 1 related

How Trump leveraged Biden's TikTok ban law to help allies gain control of the app, amid fears it could be used to boost pro-Trump content and suppress criticism

The Biden administration argued a forced sale of the app would protect it from political influence. Bluesky: @karissabe , @cravenlovelace , @cjsprigman , @emmalbriant , @zakwilliamswzw , and @drewharw...

2025-08-03
Washington Post 6 related

How Palantir has benefited since President Trump took office, securing new and expanded government contracts and becoming the S&P's top-performing stock of 2025

who sometime were already doing the job before Palantir. … @crystal159 : .  —  PALANTIR  —  The software and data analytics company has garnered at least $300 million in new and expanded business sinc...

2025-02-04
Musk Watch 8 related

An OPM staffer believes that a server Elon Musk's associates installed, with access to federal staff info like SSNs, has not had a Privacy Impact Assessment

www.wired.com/story/elon-m... Tim Marchman / @timmarchman : NEW: A 25-year-old who's worked for Elon Musk companies now has direct control over a Treasury system disbursements from which amount to a f...

2024-09-17
Newsweek 21 related

Elon Musk posted “no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala 🤔” on X and deleted the false claim after it garnered 34M+ views, claiming it was a “joke”

which he made after the second apparent assassination attempt on former Pres. Trump — Musk, who owns the platform, responded to a user who asked, “Why they want to kill Donald Trump?” … Ben Herrera / ...

2024-06-08
Wired 3 related

Google's Gemini and Microsoft's Copilot won't return results on any elections globally or historical US elections, and refuse to confirm that Biden won in 2020

With just six months to go before the US presidential election, Gemini and Copilot chatbots are incapable of saying that Joe Biden won in 2020 …

2024-03-10
Wall Street Journal 2 related

Jason Palmer, who beat Joe Biden in American Samoa's Democratic caucus, used AI-generated texts, emails, and an avatar to communicate with voters

Generative AI will be the same way.  —  https://www.wsj.com/... X: Simonetta Vezzoso / @wavesblog : “Palmer himself never set foot on the tiny territory of islands in the South Pacific during the camp...

2024-03-09
Wall Street Journal

Jason Palmer, who beat Joe Biden in American Samoa's Democratic caucus, used AI-generated texts, emails, and an avatar to communicate with voters

Generative AI will be the same way.  —  https://www.wsj.com/... X: Simonetta Vezzoso / @wavesblog : “Palmer himself never set foot on the tiny territory of islands in the South Pacific during the camp...

2024-01-27
Bloomberg 7 related

Source: ElevenLabs banned a creator's account after researchers said the company's tech was used to make an audio deepfake used in a fake Biden robocall

Company's technology used to create fake Biden recording, researchers say  —  The creator of an audio deepfake of US President Joe Biden urging people …

2024-01-23
NBC News 21 related

Following complaints and a recording, New Hampshire's AG probes fake Joe Biden robocalls, apparently artificially generated, that tell Democrats not to vote

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TEXXR tracks 57 tech news articles mentioning Joe Biden, dating back to April 2016. The biggest stories include Hackers pushing a crypto scam hijacked Twitter accounts for Bitcoin, Barack Obama, Joe... and Sources: Twitter engineers built a system to boost Elon Musk's tweets over everyone.... Frequently covered alongside Biden, Twitter, Facebook, Trump, and Apple. Coverage has increasingly focused on consumer themes.

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2025Q1consumer +17pts; regulation +50pts
2026Q2consumer +50pts; regulation -50pts

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