Elon Musk changes the gun emoji on X – news Urix – Foreign news and documentaries

If you are going to write a post with the innocent water gun emoji on X, the meaning can quickly become different. Because now a gun emoji appears instead. This applies when you use X on a PC, or Apple’s IOS system, for example with an iPhone. Apple’s water gun emoji (left) turns into a gun emoji when you use it on X. Social media expert Ståle Lindblad isn’t surprised by the change. – It sounds like Elon Musk who will again be what he calls non-woke. The gun was removed from Apple’s emojis in 2016, and replaced with the water gun. It happened after several shooting episodes that characterized the United States, writes The Guardian. Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter later followed suit. Photo: Emojipedia But now Musk has got the gun back on his own platform X, formerly Twitter. – When everyone else is politically correct by replacing a regular gun with a water gun, he shows that X is a free speech platform. It is probably a pure protest and marking, says Lindblad. Social media expert Ståle Lindblad believes Musk is making the change to hit his supporters. Photo: Susanne Lindblad He believes this is completely in line with the profile Musk wants to have. – Everything that is about saying things that would be suppressed by other platforms he thinks is good. Support in the arms lobby USA expert Eirik Løkke says it is obvious that the change is about arms legislation in the USA, which traditionally divides Democrats and Republicans. The gun lobby interest group USCCA referred to the X emoji with the text “one victory at a time!”. Eirik Løkke is a consultant at Civita. He points out that Musk has become more and more radical in recent years. Photo: Hanna Johre / news – Musk is fully on board the Trump train. He is a very strong supporter and will spend a lot of money on Trump. It is difficult not to interpret this in that direction, as a political statement to Trump, says Løkke. Musk has publicly expressed his support for the presidential candidate, and has donated large sums to a political organization that supports Trump’s election campaign. Last week he also had a conversation with Trump that went directly to his X account. Photo: Elon Musk/X Musk himself has not mentioned the change, apart from a post on the platform where he uses the new emoji. – No sensible consequences Although Musk’s influence is very visible, Løkke is unsure of how big an effect it has in the election campaign. – It is a question on which many Americans already have a point of view, so I do not want to exaggerate the effect. But it’s clear he reaches a lot of people, says Løkke. Nor does Lindblad believe that Musk’s emoji change will create larger ripple effects. – It has no sensible consequences other than that it creates more noise, and gives tribute from those who are already in his camp. Published 18.08.2024, at 14.13



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