Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google and its parent company Alphabet, joined the list of tech leaders who attended Trump’s inauguration last month.
Google’s latest move takes place against the backdrop of Donald Trump’s diversity, equity and inclusion crackdown after he signed sweeping executive orders banning DEI initiatives throughout the federal government.
It comes as Google renamed the Gulf of Mexico has been renamed as the “Gulf of America” on Google Maps on Monday.
Mid-last year, Google allegedly “returned to showing only public holidays and national observances from timeanddate.com globally, while allowing users to manually add other important moments,” the spokesperson said.
Google Calendar has removed references to months celebrating and honoring African Americans, women and LGBTQ+ communities because keeping the events wasn’t “sustainable”.
