Google Calendar cancels Pride and other inclusive anniversaries, controversy in the USA

Google confirmed that it had made changes to the predefined events of the calendar, providing a different motivation. A company spokesman explained that, for over a decade, Google has collaborated with Timeandadate.com to view public holidays and national celebrations in Google Calendar. A few years ago, the Calendar team had started to manually add a wider series of cultural moments in different countries of the world. However, following reports relating to the lack of other events and countries, the company recognized that the manual and coherent management of hundreds of recurrences globally was no longer sustainable. Therefore, in the middle of 2024, it was decided to return to view only the public holidays and the national celebrations provided by Timeanddate.com globally, leaving users the possibility of manually adding other moments important for them.