Some Google calendar users are angry after anger that some incidents such as Pride Month are no longer highlighted by default. Black History Month, Swadeshi Peepal Month, Jewish Heritage, Holocost Memory Day, and Hispanic heritage have also been removed. A Google Product Specialist,
a user This step is called “embarrassing” And that the stage is being used to “Capitulat for fascism”. Over the years, there has been there Information And reports reports about the presence of media reports, but now they are gone.
Google confirmed that this default calendar events have been changed, but with a different explanation about when and why. What is the explanation of Google provided by spokesperson Madison Kushman Weld:
For more than a decade, we have worked with Timeanddate.com to show public holiday and national observation in Google Calendar. A few years ago, the calendar team began adding a broad set of cultural moments to many countries around the world. We received the response that some other events and countries were missing – and manually and continuously maintain hundreds of moments globally was not scalable or durable. So in mid -2024, we returned globally to show only public holidays and national observation from Timeanddate.com, while allowing users to add other important moments manually.
Timeanddate.com did not respond to the requests for comments.