{"id":837745,"date":"2024-07-26T10:35:33","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T05:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=837745"},"modified":"2024-07-26T10:38:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T05:08:38","slug":"x-replaces-water-pistol-emoji-with-handgun-just-days-after-assassination-attempt-on-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/26\/x-replaces-water-pistol-emoji-with-handgun-just-days-after-assassination-attempt-on-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"X replaces water pistol emoji with handgun just days after assassination attempt on Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Days after an assassination attempt on former US President Donald Trump at an open-air rally, X (formerly Twitter) has replaced the water pistol emoji with a handgun. The update can, for the moment, be seen if posts are made from the web browser and not through the app. <\/p>\n<p>An employee of X (uses the handle @yacineMTB) posted on the platform that \u201cthe gun emoji was returned back into its rightful form: an M1911\u201d. The update is a departure among tech companies as other emoji vendors pivoted away from firearm imagery between 2016 and 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Days after an assassination attempt on former US President Donald Trump at an open-air rally, X (formerly Twitter) has replaced the water pistol emoji with a handgun. The update can, for the moment, be seen if posts are made from the web browser and not through the app. An employee of X (uses the handle @yacineMTB) posted on the platform that \u201cthe gun emoji was returned back into its rightful form: an M1911\u201d. The update is a departure among tech companies as other emoji vendors pivoted away from firearm imagery between 2016 and 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}