What’s the deal with the pro-Trump emojis on X?
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SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — After formally endorsing former President Donald Trump’s bid to retake the White House, Elon Musk has added pro-Trump emojis to Trump-related hashtags. The hashtag #MAGA now comes with a picture of the former president raising his fist in an emoji seemingly derived from the photo taken of him in the immediate aftermath of last week’s assassination attempt.
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The hashtag #Trump2024 is now accompanied by an American flag. If you click on the flag, American flags rain down across the search page.
KRON4.com typed in the hashtags #Biden and #Biden2024 and no accompanying emojis appeared.
But while Musk had been increasingly gravitating toward a pro-Trump stance prior to last weekend’s endorsement, the emojis are not actually an indication that X, formerly Twitter, has taken an official side in the presidential race. According to a report in Mashable, the emojis are part of a paid promotion.
“This is a commercially available product,” said an X representative cited by Mashable. X’s website has a page on branded content opportunities, which lists “Hashmojis” and “Hashmojis” as among the available products.
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