Google Calendar removes many cultural programs

Google has used its popular online services over the years to remind users about cultural events, their calendar app can be marked with opportunities such as Black History Month and Women History Month.

Last week, some users noticed that the popular app was no longer displaying those observation, as well as a litni of others, inspires online backlash from some users who against more liberal approaches to another sign of Google against more liberal approaches Folded.

But Google said that it removed the calendar observation in the middle of the previous year. A Google spokesperson said in a statement that manually maintaining hundreds of moments for different countries was “scalable or durable”.

Google and other large technology companies occurred, as it appeared to react to conservative complaints that their products and policies are biased. Last week, Google, stating his goals, stating how much he wanted in his work force, as a federal contractor, was to follow the executive orders of President Trump, which diversity, equity and inclusion Was opposing policies.

The calendar dispute followed the decisions by Google and Apple to change the name of Mexico by Google and Apple, when Mr. Trump ordered the name change in the US Gulf in the US Gulf in his map applications after Sri Trump ordered the name change.

Google officials also said on Wednesday that they will stop offering diversity training programs and update other training efforts which have DEI material, Parent told,

For more than a decade, Google has worked together timeanddate.com (A website that shows time, date and major holidays in places around the world) to label public holidays and national observation, such as President’s Day and Labor Day. Several years ago, the spokesperson said, Google’s calendar team began marking a broad set of cultural moments in countries around the world, and the company was asked to connect more events and countries before it Decided that it was too much.

Google calendar users noticed that the Hispanic Heritage Month, Pride Month, Jewish American Heritage Month and Holocaust had all disappeared in the context of memory. The Google calendar once again shows observation including Memorial Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas from only timeanddate.com, and users can manually add other moments, the spokes. Ruckus First reported calendar changes.

Google’s calendar app is used More than 500 million people For work and personal reasons, and some of them made fun of Google’s clarification that it was very difficult to live with every occasion.

One told X that Google “managed to keep Columbus Day somehow.” As a federal holiday, Columbus Day is still marked automatically on the calendar of Google.

Another user stated that the change felt like an attempt to “rewrite history”, while the other took the change as a sign that Google was trying to appeal to Mr. Trump.

Google said that in some countries, the ceremonies marked on its calendar were involved in Teachers’ Day. While they have gone, the company said that it was actively celebrating and promoting cultural moments as a company in its other products.

In the last two weeks, it marked the black history month on its search page with an animation and a YouTube playlist. And it visited Chandra New Year with a search doodle and a curate collection of films on Google TV.