Apple Maps and Google Maps have renamed the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America,” following President Trump desire to rename it. These applications and their companies are increasingly complicit in the Trump administration’s war on reality and their propagandistic control of information.

They have blocked posts on the location to prevent people from lodging protests. They have also made it difficult to report an issue with the location.

But, in Apple Maps, you can still lodge a protest by reporting a problem with the location (instead of the name).

In Apple Maps, search for Gulf of Mexico. When “Gulf of America” is located. Click the elipses (…) and then select Report an Issue. Select Location on Map is Wrong. Then, drag the location pin to the White House in Washington, D.C., which is the actual location of the “Gulf of America.” You can also leave a comment if you wish.

Good luck!

Historians of cartography, nations, empires, and state development know that mapping is an expression of state power. Projections of power into oceanic spaces and bodies of water are related to constructions of territoriality, and has been governed by maritime and international law since the early seventeenth century. And, historians of news and information know how media can be subverted into propagandistic instruments of the state.