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All the tech news from the 2024 election

Photo illustration of Joe Biden and Donald Trump‘s faces being used for deep fake videos.
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Joe Biden and Donald Trump are expected to face off on Tuesday, November 5th.

Technology was a mere footnote in previous election cycles, but the 2024 elections are happening in the wake of the very contentious TikTok ban bill. At the same time, this electoral cycle may be the most divorced from substantive policy than any other cycle in living memory. Still, the federal government is in a regulatory mood, and the question of which political controls the White House after January 2025 will determine tech policy issues ranging from net neutrality to the rapidly expanding scope of tech antitrust.

In the meantime, the specter of misinformation — particularly AI-generated misinformation — looms over an election that is particularly vulnerable to rhetorical attacks on the legitimacy of the democratic process.

Here’s all our 2024 election coverage in one place.