<p><img src="https://static3.businessinsider.com/image/605c5f840d155e0019ef6a00-1600/50986846068_fe8137b3c1_o.jpg" alt="joe biden" data-mce-source="White House/Lawrence Jackson" data-mce-caption="President Joe Biden participates in a conference phone call with governors affected by a snowstorm in the Midwest and southwest Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, in the Oval Office of the White House." border="0"></p><p></p><bi-shortcode id="summary-shortcode" data-type="summary-shortcode" class="mceNonEditable" contenteditable="false">Summary List Placement</bi-shortcode><p>Medium's algorithm recommended erotic short stories to the official POTUS account used by President Joe Biden, <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/24/22349175/medium-layoffs-union-evan-williams-blogger-twitter-subscription">The Verge reported</a>.</p><p>A partnerships manager at Medium working with the White House first discovered the problem while in a video conference call with a White House staffer, the report said.</p><p>It is said to have prompted an internal communication entitled: "President Joe Biden is Being Served Erotica on Medium.com."</p><p>That manager discovered the problem while sharing his screen with the White House staffer and logging into the @POTUS account to talk about Biden starting to post, the outlet said.</p><p>The first erotic post is said to have been one called "A is for After," which was described in a sub-headline as "a cuckold love story."</p><p>It tells the story of a wife who seeks out multiple sex partners in an evening, with her husband's permission.</p><p>The post doesn't include pornographic imagery, but does include graphic descriptions of sex, and profanity. <a href="https://myerotica.com/a-is-for-after-d943ed5c5066">It can be read here</a>.</p><p>It is by author Bella Cooper, who posts several stories a week, all sexual in nature.</p><p>It's not clear if the White House staffer saw that recommendation, or only the Medium staffer, per the report.</p><p>It said the manager tried to change the recommendations by reading more political content from the account.</p><p>But, per the report, that didn't workand the next recommendation for Biden was another story by Cooper, similarly explicit, called <a href="https://medium.com/bella-cooper-books/getting-a-piece-and-some-pizza-too-6ce231cb2dfa">called "Getting a Piece (and Some Pizza Too)</a>. It has the sub-headline "step sister taboo erotica."</p><p><a href="https://medium.com/@POTUS">The @POTUS account</a> has 39,000 followers but has not yet posted any content. </p><p>Biden used Medium when running for president under the handle @JoeBiden. He <a href="https://medium.com/@JoeBiden/south-carolina-a-year-later-3e88745983cc">posted once on that account</a> since he became president, writing about the coronavirus on March 1.</p><p>The Verge report came after Medium's CEO Ev Williams <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/medium-offers-severance-to-employees-after-failed-union-drive-2021-3">announced that the company was abandoning its editorial efforts</a>, offering editorial employees severance packages.</p><p>It had tried to curate editorial content by commissioning work from professional writers, one of many new business models it tried in recent years.</p><p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/medium-recommended-erotica-to-biden-potus-account-report-2021-3#comments">Join the conversation about this story »</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/candy-corn-ingredients-made-of-gelatin-lac-resin-halloween-sugar-syrup-2017-10">What candy corn is actually made of</a></p>
Click here to read full news..
