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Google says it removed cultural events from its calendar last year
Google has removed events such as Black History Month and Pride Month from being listed on the calendar by default. Other events that were removed
“Some years ago, the Calendar team started manually adding a broader set of cultural moments in a wide number of countries around the world. We got feedback that some other events and countries were missing — and maintaining hundreds of moments manually and consistently globally wasn’t scalable or sustainable,” the spokesperson said, adding that users can still “manually add other important moments,” to their calendars. It is unclear why these changes are just being noticed now by some users but it comes as the roll-back on diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts has taken the spotlight.
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