Google Maps prevents GULF of America after renaming criticism

Google Maps prevented reviews of the Gulf of Mexico, after criticizing its decision to name the “Gulf of America” ​​for users in the United States.

Technology giant The name of the site was updated on Wednesday After President Donald Trump ordered his change in official government documents.

The GULF In Google Maps label now highlights a note saying, “Publishing is currently turned off.”

Google seems to have deleted some of the remaining negative reviews following the change of its name.

BBC asked the company to comment.

“Some types of places are likely to receive publications, such as reviews, which violate Google Policies,” added the poster to the results of the Gulf result.

“To prevent this, Google stopped publishing.”

Leave the last review For the site’s result on Google Maps It seems now that a month ago.

Some users Claiming on social media These negative reviews that they posted to things were removed to change, and they were accused of Google of “censorship”.

The so -called “channel review” has become a common form of online protest against companies or companies that appear in Google’s search results or maps.

In December, Google Remove degrading reviews From McDonald’s in Pennsylvania where 26 -year -old Luigi Mansion was arrested for the killing of Brian Thompson, 26 years old.

The tactic has also been published to process the applications of the application on the mobile phone market.

In 2020, people used it to criticize President Trump at the time to ban Tijook – According to what was left for hundreds of cash reviews In his campaign to re -election on the Apple App Store.

It was also used by Gamestop traders to respond in stock trading applications such as Robinhood that provided trading restrictions Amid market annoyance 2021.

Google He says It takes a procedure to prevent misuse of their review mechanisms using automated methods to detect “unusual patterns” for activity – such as a site or a work that has a sudden rise in one star reviews.

The procedure adds may include temporarily disrupting contributions to the menus or removing “policy content” to prevent misuse of their tools or fake reviews.

Forbes I mentioned On Thursday, the company “confessed” to remove the reviews that criticize the renaming of the Gulf site on the maps.

The BBC asked Google to confirm if it had deleted it.

It comes after Google said in A. Blog post On Monday, American users see that the “Gulf of America” ​​replaces the Gulf of Mexico on the maps.

He said this follows a “long -term policy” to reflect the changes that have been updated in official US government sources.

Google added that the name will remain unchanged in Mexico and will witness the rest of the world, “The Gulf of America”, in addition to its current name.

Mexico President Claudia Shinbom He wrote a letter to the company They are asked not to rename the Gulf in a letter in late January.

Meanwhile, Apple has also changed our username from its maps app.

The White House highlighted this in a publication on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday – with a picture of Apple Maps “The Gulf of America” ​​offer instead of the Gulf of Mexico.

The major technology companies and senior executives have been accused of trying to “prefer curry” with the Trump administration through controversial policy changes.

Meta announced that it will abandon facts and some global content policies in January, and later joined a large number of companies including Google and Amazon In limiting the goals of employing diversity.