Stories about Biden generated 36 million more interactions (likes, comments, shares) on social media than Trump last week, according to exclusive data from NewsWhip. During the campaign, Biden was never within 18 million interactions of Trump.
Last week was the first time Biden had more cable news mentions than Trump, according to the Internet Archive Television News Archive. He also drew bigger ratings for his inauguration than Trump did four years ago.
Biden has been mentioned more on social media than Trump since Jan. 20, according to data from Keyhole. Over the last three months, Trump was mentioned twice as much.
From the week prior, page views for Trump content on five major news sites (WSJ, NYT, USA Today, Reuters, Politico) dropped 35% during the week of inauguration, while views for Biden content increased 2.5x, according to data provided to Axios by SimilarWeb.
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