In light of the coronavirus pandemic, Google is not celebrating the April Fool’s Day for the second year in a row, an internal email confirmed.
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In an internal email, Marvin Chow, Google’s vice president of global marketing, said the tech giant would continue the “hiatus” of April 1st of this year pranks as “much of the world” is still ahead of it due to Covid-19 ” serious challenges, “Business Insider reported.
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“As you will remember, last year we made the decision to break our long-standing Google tradition of celebrating the April Fool’s Day joke out of respect for all those fighting Covid-19. Much of the world is still there grappling with serious challenges, we feel we should stop the jokes for April Fool’s Day again this year. As last year, we should continue to find suitable ways to provide our users with moments of joy year-round (e.g., doodles , Easter eggs, etc.) Message said further.
The report said Google executives sent an internal email to managers in March asking them to stop the jokes about the coronavirus disruption last year.
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Recently, Google worked with the Indian Ministry of Health and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to provide accurate and science-based information on Covid-19.
