What's the deal with the pro-Trump emojis on X?

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.

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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