This latest incident joins a wave of reported issues across social platforms as tech giants and users navigate the new political landscape

On Monday, the biggest names in Silicon Valley, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, joined “First Buddy” Elon Musk to watch Trump be inaugurated as the 47th president. Musk later stole the headlines following an appearance at a rally in which he made an “odd salute”.

Google on Monday said its maps will use names for Denali and the Gulf of Mexico favored by President Donald Trump — Mount McKinley and Gulf of America — when federal maps make the switch.

Donald Trump takes office for his second term as the 47th president of the United States in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, on Monday, January 20, 2025. The U.S. Capitol from the top of the Washington Monument on the inauguration day of Donald Trump’s second presidential term in Washington, DC. REUTERS

Google Maps will change the name of "Gulf of Mexico" to "Gulf of America" once it is officially updated in the U.S. Geographic Names System, Google said in an X post on Monday.

The "Gulf of Mexico" will be shown as the "Gulf of America" to Google Maps users in the United States after the name change ordered by the Trump Administration is officially updated on the federal mapping database.

Google said it would follow the Trump administration in renaming the Gulf of Mexico once the new name is updated in government sources.

As the 2024 presidential race entered its final stretch, the nation’s richest tech leaders gravitated toward Trump’s side.

President Donald Trump is renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. But how will that change go into effect – and will everyone call it that?

The federal law banning TikTok has revealed a major schism among American tech companies: Some are willing to flout the law — and some, including Apple and Google, are not.

Google announced the Gulf of Mexico will be renamed ’Gulf of America’ in US maps, while users in Mexico will still see the original name. This follows an executive order from President Trump and reflects Google’s policy of aligning map names with official government updates.