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

Former President Joe Biden's name was missing from Google's search results, prompting the company to blame a "data error" on Thursday.

President Joe Biden's name was omitted from a Google search result of "U.S. Presidents in order." The glitch was fixed quickly.

Social media users claimed omitting Joe Biden's name was big tech's latest attempt to cosy up to Donald Trump.

In what many social media users see as Big Tech's latest move to align with Donald Trump, Google temporarily removed Joe Biden from its 'US Presidents' search results. According to The Independent, searches for terms like 'US Presidents,

A Google glitch led to the temporary omission of former US President Joe Biden’s name from the US Presidents search results.

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”.

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.