Google says it removed cultural events from its calendar last year

Google has removed events such as Black History Month and Pride Month from being listed in the calendar by default.

Other Events It has been deleted The default calendar includes Jewish heritage, Indigenous People’s Month, Holocaust Memory Day, and Hispanic Heritage Month.

Google spokesman Madison Cushman Veld confirmed the changes to TechCrunch and said that in mid-2024 the app was back to show what it said. timeanddate.com It is indicated as a national holiday or national observance.

“A few years ago, the calendar team began manually adding broader cultural moments in many countries around the world. We received feedback that some other events and countries are missing. Maintaining hundreds of moments consistently and globally manually was not scalable or sustainable,” the spokesman said, and users “remove other important moments manually added” to their calendar. He added that he can do it.

Google Calendar Update News will also be coming the day after work Officially changed the name Gulf of Mexico to the “American Gulf” for US users

This move followed Trump Administrative Order Change the name of the bay.

It is unclear why these changes are now noticed by some users, but as the rollbacks of diversity, equity and inclusive efforts have been in the spotlight. Large tech companies have begun to end various DEI measures. Meta, Googleand Amazon All have announced reevaluation or elimination of the DEI program, but the latter two Adjust the wording With 10k filing Delete Some or all mentions of Dei.