{
  "id": 4617654,
  "title": "Google Maps changes Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’ in US searches",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/google-maps-changes-lake-ontario-to-lake-america-in-us-searches-4617654",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-31T09:27:26.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "People Daily Kenya",
    "slug": "people-daily-kenya",
    "url": "https://peopledaily.digital/news/google-maps-changes-lake-ontario-to-lake-america-in-us-searches"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Anyone in the United States searching for Lake Ontario on Google Maps can no longer find it as of this weekend. Users in the country will now see the smallest of the Great Lakes identified as “Lake America” on that site, following President Donald Trump’s executive order on Thursday mandating the change in how the US government […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}