Google has eliminated events such as Black History Month and Orgroid month of being included in the calendar by default.
Other events that were eliminated From the default calendar, it includes Jewish heritage, the month of indigenous peoples, the day of the memory of the Holocaust and the month of Hispanic inheritance.
Google spokesman, Madison Cushman Veld, confirmed the changes in britcommerce, saying that in mid -2024, the application showed again what only Timeanddate.com It is shown as a holiday or a national observance.
“Some years ago, the calendar team began to manually add a broader set of cultural moments in a large number of countries around the world. We received comments that other events and countries were missing, and maintaining hundreds of moments manually and constantly worldwide was not scalable or sustainable, “said the spokesman, adding that users can still” manually add other important moments “to their calendars
Google calendar update news also produces only one day after the company officially changed the name From the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America” for users in the United States
The measure agreed with the Trump Executive Order of the Administration To change the name of the Gulf.
It is not clear why some users are only noticing these changes now, but it occurs as the efforts of diversity, equity and inclusion have been put in the center of attention. The big technological companies have begun to finish several Dei measures. Meta, Google and Amazon have announced a reevaluation or elimination of the DEI programs, and the last two adjust the writing in their 10 k presentations to eliminate some or all the mention of Dei.