Google Maps shows 'Lake America' to U.S. users after GNIS name change
SHAME on Google Maps 🌊🌊 As a lake I don’t have much use for mapping apps except when I verify that Big Ass Lake really does exist. But I will now use a different one.
Myra32I’m now taking Google Maps off my phone
Tina H she/her🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺 🇿🇦 🇬🇱 🇮🇹 🇫🇷 🇩🇰🏴23Mapquest? They refused to change the name. 😃😃👏👏
Cutter15@mapquest.com doesn't play that rename ish. IJS
Laura13MapQuest instead of google maps DuckDuckGo( or any others) instead of the google search engine That’s working well for me!
Greg Alkerton13Canadian Google maps haven't changed suggesting the nazi bootlicking is only on the US. Not surprising!
Makeral Rising🇨🇦12Big Ass Lake, Nova Scotia
Nifferama6Folks, if Lake Michigan is talking in public like this it’s time for everybody to dump Google maps. 
Gordon Wark 🤬💥😡🔥🕗🕕🕓🕖6"The boots you lick will stomp you down." -common sense
Darlene5Lake Michigan would like a word....
Bridget 🦋 🐸🌸📎🕊️💙 🇺🇦🇨🇦🌞📚🎶🌍🍀3#BoycottGoogle it is a shitty search engine anyway!
Steph59Renee 👠2Let’s play, Name That Lake! 👠
Terra 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸2🤣🤣 Even the other Great Lakes are pissed
Trump: I am renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America. Seneca Nation, citing 1794 treaty signed by George Washington: Not so fast, Orange Man. thehill.com/homenews/adm...
Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET41Thank you Doc F💩cking lunatic Thank you Merrick Garland Thank you Mitch McConnell
Starman-X28Thinking he has the gravitas to rename something keeps his very fragile ego (think malignant narcissism with a sprinkle of frontotemporal dementia as a topping) propped up. I would sign an EO renaming him "Orange Treasonous Asshole" but he already has that moniker amongst thinking Americans.
The Arc of the Moral Uni is Long, But it Bends Toward Justice23Gordon Lightfoot knows the correct names of the lakes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV9P...
Rob15The orange menace does not care about treaties, especially when it has anything to due with our indigenous community.
🖤 How I see it ~ James7Or, they could just laugh behind his back like the rest of the world does... We'll, except the betas at #GOOGLE
Tina - Release the #EpsteinFiles|Resistbot Text RESIST to 504097Translation: “Hey dumb-f*ck you can’t just rename 💩 on a whim“
Missing The Point591794 TREATY OF CANANDAIGUA FROM THE TOP ROPE.
T. Ed Campbell15So awesome! 🤩 Trump always the fool
Missing The Point14Did we make any treaties with tribal nations saying we wouldn't have any pedophile presidents?
Kenny P14Once again we owe the First Nations our thanks. I hope this time we remember 🧡 ✊.
Jenn12Boundary lines are established by George Washington & Six Nations of Indians using Lake Ontario and... "the United States acknowledge all the land within the aforementioned boundaries, to be the property of the Seneca nation; and the U.S. will never claim the same" nysm.nysed.gov/exhibitions/...
SD Stalzer11Google Maps changed the name. Mapquest says they won’t. I know which app I’m deleting.
🇨🇦 sophialarkrose.bsky.social10The kindness of unexpected allies. ❤️
brucehale.bsky.social7Someone at Google Maps might want to read this
JUST IN: Google Maps bent to Trump. While you were sleeping, Google changed Lake Ontario to Lake America. This is fascism! Call it what it is!
💙🏳️🌈 Kh’ymm (aka Goldie) 🏳️🌈💙29Another great reason to not use anything from Google.
Jules⚖️📨25Please listen to the video before you comment. It helps. Aaron was clear when he said other countries around the world will more than likely NOT change the name.
Aida 🇵🇷🇺🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦🐾🌊🦋🗽💙🐸20Well I know which map I won’t be using.
Leonard Klar18Still says Lake Ontario in the UK, and presumably the rest of the world. This is cowardly appeasement.
Jen 🐦🔥16I’m not surprised one bit. I switched to Duck Duck Go.
Dee7I am using Mapquest now! They know where Lake Ontario still is.
CNN is providing different news to different audiences. On the left, to please Bluesky users, CNN derisively refers to the change by saying "the smallest of the Great Lakes" will be "identified as Lake America." On the right, to avoid antagonizing X users, CNN makes no mention of the lake's size.
Brandon Friedman142Very dystopian to see a widely trusted news outlet change news headlines on the same story to suit different audiences.
Dopamine Hangover41This is the most foolish story. Why does Superior, the largest lake, not simply eat the other four?
economymedicine.bsky.social6Bluesky is the only place people are going to read all that text
Netty Bo Betty3You know that the president has no power to unilaterally rename one of the Great Lakes. 🤨 How the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) Lake Ontario/Lake America name change in the US will appear on Google Maps
Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗2On the website article they say do it's the smallest. Although maybe there will be an angry call from the White House and they'll have to change it to "the largest".
ccorleyjd.bsky.social1How do you know what their intention was?
Dr Abeba Birhane38this is how you keep society polarised, truth blurred, and trust in media/information diminished
Brandon Friedman35Never mind. I retract the post above. While it looked to be a tiny act of resistance, it was only for the Bluesky audience. CNN is changing news to suit its viewers.
bree 🇨🇦18it’s because they’re afraid of me specifically
LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍17Not entirely clear to me if this is a character limit thing. They have the ability to write over the limit, but don't on twitter from the first few dozen posts I scrolled past
Josh Sternberg17This is a new twist to Agenda Setting, which shows us media’s role in shaping what we think about.
Canadian Cynic11CNN is such garbage these days.
Christian Rincon4If you use social media professionally, you understand how intentional this variation in copy is. Twitter is propaganda.
Illinois Accountability Project 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🏳️🌈2They call it “geo-specific personalization.” Advertising platforms are built specifically for this kind of dynamic content variation.
Absolute Fareed2There's no reason any audience should be watching CNN. They lie to everyone just to get people to click the ads on their sites.
Joe Sacco and Vanzetti2How did people come to distrust great institutions like the media? Total mystery
Current view of Google Maps while using a Canadian VPN (left) and an American VPN (right)
Luke LeBrun134And here is what it looks like without using any VPN in Europe:
Marlo Stimpson68I was at the Toronto FC game last night and the US anthem was booed very loudly. More so than previously. #LakeOntario
Melissa Goldstein29Interesting how quickly Google updated their map (see blog.google/products-and...), when they haven't bothered to update their satellite imagery of that same body of water in YEARS. Our own Doug Ford is destroying Ontario's cultural landmarks, but you wouldn't know it from looking at Google maps.
Burrowcrat21Strange that the U.S. Geological Survey hasn’t even updated theirs
Teresa Heffernan17Glad i have mostly ditched Google
Namaste13Duck Duck Go from US.
ℳatt60I really don't need to hear from CNN-brained guys being like "actually this is a nothingburger to distract from Epstein 😏 we should do a cutesy renaming of our own 😏", for some people, whose sovereignty is being directly threatened by the US President, this does not feel like a cutesy meme game
daniel sieradski30ok just installed mapquest on my phone
Dave Infante15“A group of 30 people in the Silicon Valley went ahead and made a geopolitical decision that affects over 2 billion people with no political oversight YEESSSSSS!!!”
Jess/Fawn (they/them) 🍉14So what are everyone's favourite non google options?
Pronto13La tecnológicas plegándose a los designios de este demente sin ofrecer la más mínima resistencia.
Second Great Bisexual Awakening12Switching my VPN from Chicago to Toronto again
Ustinair11VPN to USA from Germany
mlongfield.bsky.social10Google's dumbass bike trip route mapping algorithm should have been reason enough long ago to ditch it for @mapquest.com .
Will Lowe8Seeing, like, a lake: How certain schemes to improve one human's mental condition have failed
Steven Schapansky 🇨🇦6Living next to North Korea.
Google Maps has changed the name of "Lake Ontario" to "Lake America" for U.S. users
Josh Lowe76Coward shit from Google as usual
Rocky N. Bullwinkle44Downloaded MapQuest today. From the Google store.
Deb34This will be their legacy. Capitulation to a wannabe dictator.
Fergie30Google bends the knee once again
M. Haynes10I knew it was coming bc Google is run by the same caliber of losers that make up this administration. They did the same with the Gulf of Mexico.
Eyes7I asked Google why it changed the maps. This is what it said. Lol
Nash352"but but but but it was set up automatically in the name registry and Google doesn't want to have to micromanage stuff so it's not really deliberate so" Shut up. Shut the fuck up. This is an international incident and Google had a choice to make. They made a stupid choice.
Viet Thanh Nguyen44So people in the US will literally get information only meant for the US? That is very definitely another sign of authoritarianism and fascism.
Samantha Ferreira 🔜 Anime NYC19I hate this dystopian hellscape we live in.
Julian Davis Mortenson13I suspect this kind of thing is doing as much to mainstream court reform as ten NYT opeds on the actual subject
Neil9Just removed the Google Maps app and replaced with @mapquest.com. It's easy, people! #LakeOntario #Canada #EpsteinFiles
ᴀᴢᴀ 🐺9Wow Google is brandishing new levels of patheticism.
Ali Gundam7But not the rest of the world. It feels like American corporations are just humouring an entitled child.
max largeman 🐻6lmao google crafting a delusional world for americans to live in
Nice Footpaws5*quietly verifies that he's got a good stockpile of stabilized gas for the generator*
Gaal Dornick3By the US renaming the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario in its curriculum, our children will continue to face significant communication barriers, professional/credibility issues & friction when engaging in int’l travel and business as adults. Just like when we stopped teaching cursive…
If I'm Canada I accept the Lake Ontario name change to Lake America and immediately change all the names of all other 4 lakes to Lake Canada
hammancheez19Lake Canada Lake Also Canada Lake Still Canada Lake You Fucking Guessed It Hoser
Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑12Part of why that's such an absolutely boffo idea is that Lake Michigan is entirely within US borders, so they could ALSO use that as a shining opportunity to wave a magic Sharpie and declare a chunk of some other place their own.
Aimee Ogden12Lake Gordie Howe, Lake Gord Downie, Lake Gordon Lightfoot, and Lake Gordon Korman
Joel5All diplomatic business with the United States to be conducted in French only. We brought in this guy from the Office québécois de la langue française to go bonkers if you say “sandwich”
LadyKeri4No. And not even any jokes about it. The name is older than both colonies. Those names are some of the few real connections to the land that is known by all. They might be colonized versions of the Indigenous originals but the roots remain and those run deep.
Rufus T. Firefly1Lake Canada Lake Canadb Lake Canadc Lake Canadd Just to avoid confusion.
Google Maps shows something called "Lake America" among the Great Lakes -- please help them fix this error: support.google.com/maps/answer/... #holdfast #signalboost
🇨🇦👠OhHellNoCanada👠🇨🇦11My question is, why is Google Maps listening to a rapist?
DeepDiveCinema10Seems odd a company who wants you to trust their maps mis-labels them.
Mosenfelder7Appeasement of a dictator is shameful and that is what Google has done by incorporating Lake America and Gulf of America place names into their maps.
A Dandelion6Why it's an error ⤵️ bsky.app/profile/jonc...
graftondog 🇨🇦4I had the same idea and tried to do something, anything, in the last hour. It might just be me. But I did end up being able to leave a “review.”
Gwen Veltema Klemm she/her 🐸✌️❤️🤍💙4Done. It's the littlest middle finger to the Goliath.
🇨🇦👠OhHellNoCanada👠🇨🇦13Report away, my friends Google Maps shows something called "Lake America" among the Great Lakes -- please help them fix this error: support.google.com/maps/answer/...
bowie deschanel7It’s time to go back to using MapQuest, which still uses Lake Ontario and the Gulf of Mexico
DC Cassandra4Done! That felt productive for a Sunday before noon, I think I’ve good for the day.
This is what happens if I just go LOOK to how Google is describing that lake. If you SEARCH fo Lake America, Lake Ontario comes up (and notes that Ontario is the littlest of the Greats).
CT Yankee30That's because you're in Ireland. From the United States, it's now Lake America
Westerberg_is_god15The stupidity is going to kill all of us. Seriously
Kelly Smith 🍁12MapQuest still shows it correctly. I just installed their app and will start using that instead of Google maps.
In America sadly Google maps shows it as Lake America... I also just looked myself. Maybe use a VPN to change country to America to see if Google will show it to you as Lake America? bsky.app/profile/kolt...
SailorLife10Mariners all over the globe: U.S. is one of the most psychotic nations on the planet.
GOP Clown Show8Weird because from here in America I just scrolled to it (and also tried searching for Lake Ontario or Lake America), and Google maps definitely does not show Lake Ontario. If Google‘s gonna take those liberties, I’m gonna take my own:
emptywheel316The other day I focused on this ¶ in a WSJ story on how corporations are trying to prepare for Democratic scrutiny, knowing that THEY will be easier to subpoena than Trump or his immediate flunkies. Today is a good day to brainstorm a Google subpoena about this. www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
Brian Straw4The TomTom app and other mapping apps using OpenStreetMaps still refer to the lake correctly as Lake Ontario. If anyone is looking for alternatives.
Michael Toney2Not really relevant to the discussion, but this is something I'm passionate about ever since a 5th grade social studies challenge incorrectly ruled against me. Lake Ontario is the smallest by surface area, but is not the smallest by volume of water. That's lake Erie, because it's shallower
"Lake America" is showing up on some Ontario government agency websites using Google Maps data — despite Google saying users in Canada would continue to see Lake Ontario.
Neil10It's ok, it's a great prompt to stop using Google Maps and, for that matter, the Google search engine and browser. @mapquest.com is a nice alternative, as is @duckduckgo.com for browser and SE. Now's the time!
🎶🥁…one tin soldier rides away.5Stop using Google Maps until they stop changing names on the map to please a sick man who’s administration is bowing in fear of the Epstein files.
bobriensan3Mapquest, Apple, and Waze, haven't bent the knee
Alexandrian Apologist2How long until it lists the Canadian Provinces as US states on Google Maps? Hormuz? Cuba? Venezuela? Greenland?
Wally Kibler🇨🇦 ~ Nasty Canadian2This is what I get on my google map
Mr. Trizzle1I can't believe anyone is even indulging this stupidity.
Well, guess I'm permanently using Apple Maps. Feckless, tyrant-appeasing Google Maps on the left, has-a-spine-at-least-for-now Apple Maps on the right. I'm so absolutely sick of being humiliated by both my own government and the corporations that keep pandering to our decrepit POTUS.
John Pfaff72Though Apple Maps now uses the vomitous Gulf of America abomination, so doubt I can be confident this will last. I don't want Trump to die in office, bc I want him to live long enough to see all his petty humiliations reversed.
Kadsenchaos3@johnpfaff.bsky.social Not, if you are accessing from Europe. That's US special maps. You live in North Korea, my friends.
m-gibbs.bsky.social2Hasn't changed yet for me, but I am currently in Mexico.
Sam Hayes 🖊️ Just a Common Writer1I wonder how quick they'd change course if Canada threatened to ban Google apps unless they reverse the change.
Avagraha1I just checked and found this.
Butlerian Jihadist1Apple changed the gulf of mexico to gulf of america, they probably just haven't pushed the change yet
Canadian here, Google Maps still has it labeled Lake Ontario when I call it up. Maybe it’s only marked for Americans ?🤞🏽
edolis 🇪🇺🇮🇹6in Italy is now labelled L. America as well 🤷♂️
Gibsonia5Yes- same for the gulf. Gulf of Mexico still shows up if you’re in Mexico. Google is performing in the United States for an audience of one.
Maria Haanpää3I'm getting this kind of crap right now, while using Google Maps from Finland: bsky.app/profile/tiet...
Valerie Cartwright3It's all for one American who is squatting in our White House.
peter1867.bsky.social2Lake Ontario in UK version.
Alex Wright2In Canada here... still showing as Lake Ontario.
Just delete Google and Google Maps and switch to DuckDuckGo and MapQuest! Problems solved! 🇨🇦💪🥊
R Larson5Just made a report to Google reading, "Lake Ontario is NOT lake america. I plan to delete Google maps if you keep the lake america name."
eimaj664Enough of these corporate sycophants. Switch to Proton mail for encrypted email program with free & paid plans. Switch to Firefox browser doesn’t track searches & allows you to opt out of AI tools. DuckDuckGo for searches Cancel Premium YouTube Spread the word, retweet.
Jacqui4My devices won't let me delete them, so I disabled them and switched to Ecosia and Mapquest.
Ray Oday - I live where my real name would have me disappeared2Another tip is to add Brave Browser for when you want to watch Youtube ad free.
Eric Barnes2And stop using all alphabet/goole products and apps, including YouTube. Cancel all accounts!
KayElan7ISO64🇨🇦2Done that a few days ago
