Google has removed several culturally significant dates, including the start of Black History Month and LGBTQ+ Pride Month, from its Calendar app's default 2025 schedule. Users previously complained about the disappearance of these dates. Google claims the changes were made to streamline its scheduling system and were initiated last year before President Trump's term ended.
has scratched several culturally significant dates from its Calendar app, opting to omit the start of Black History Month, LGBTQ+ Pride Month and more from its default 2025 schedule.a slew of diversity and heritage-related holidays from its standard slate of reminders, after users complained about the dates disappearing.
“So in mid-2024 we returned to showing only public holidays and national observances from timeanddate.com globally, while allowing users to manually add other important moments.” While Google’s spokesperson said the Calendar edits were apolitical, the company has made other efforts to bend to Trump’s whims.the Gulf of Mexico with Trump’s preferred “Gulf of America” and revert the name of Alaska’s Mount Denali to Mount McKinley, once “official government sources” adopt the name changes.The next four years will change America forever. But HuffPost won't back down when it comes to providing free and impartial journalism.
Addressing why its standard “diversity, equity, and inclusion” language had been cut from an SEC report filed in February, Fiona Cicconi, the chief people officer for Google parent company Alphabet, said the corporation was “evaluating changes to our programs” to stay in legal compliance given “their role as a federal contractor.”Realness delivered to your inbox
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