Google’s online calendar has removed default entries for a handful of holidays and cultural events, including Pride, Black History Month, and others, the California-based tech giant confirmed.
The omissions gained attention online over the past week, particularly around upcoming events that are no longer automatically listed.
Google said the change was made midway through last year, dispelling suspicions that the change was made as a result of President Donald Trump’s executive order to end government diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.
Google said it manually added “a broader set of cultural moments in a wide number of countries” in the past several years, supplementing public holidays and national observances from timeanddate.com that have been used to populate Google Calendar for more than a decade….