An X employee tweeted about the change last week, noting that the gun emoji has returned to 'its rightful form' on the X website. It will happen on mobile 'soon,' says Elon Musk.

Think before you send that playful, emoji-laden text ... And in France, a 22-year-old man sent his ex-girlfriend a series of text messages with a gun emoji, ...

Years after Twitter replaced the pistol emoji with a green and orange water gun, X has decided to change it back to a regular handgun. An X employee announced the change in a post last week.

Although emoji are standardized by an organization called the Unicode Consortium, each platform is free to implement its own image for each one. In 2016, Apple changed its depiction of the gun ...

Originally, every firm showed the emoji as a firearm, except Microsoft, which designed it as a Buck Rogers-style ray gun. In 2016, however, Apple changed it from a firearm to a water pistol.

Seriously, guys, think before you emoji. Search. ... what happened to a 22-year-old man from south-east France who has been sentenced to six months in prison for sending a gun emoji to his ...

But emoji are language, and the presence of a gun emoji doesn’t entail violence any more than the word gun does. One may refer to guns, at times, when intending violence—in one case, ...

They started a campaign last year demanding the tech company to get rid of the gun and pistol emoji. Apple said more than 100 new and redesigned emojis will be coming this fall.

Using skin tone emojis is a seemingly easy choice that in reality can be fraught. NPR's Asma Khalid talks with writer and researcher Zara Rahman about the complexities behind the selection.