What it communicates, above all, is the hopeless unhipness of its sender. I use it anyway, mostly out of habit but also ...

However, that emoji icon can get in the way if you don’t plan on using it. While you can’t turn Gmail’s emoji reactions off officially, you can hide them. Here’s how.

Not even emoji are safe from hackers - smiley faces can be hijacked to hide data, study claims. News. By Sead Fadilpaši ...

Antivaxxers have been using the vegetable emoji as a code to prevent their conversations from being censored in Facebook groups.

Police and experts are warning parents to be vigilant about the emoji on their children's phones, following Netflix's thriling drama Adolescence. The series follows 13-year-old Jamie Miller ...

For example, the smiling emoji is used to convey real joy, but at the same time, users also deployed this emoji to hide negative emotions or de-escalate a tense situation.

To Gen Z, that classic smiley face emoji isn’t all sunshine — it’s more of a smug, side-eye smirk that can come off as passive-aggressive in texts like above.

Facebook groups are using the carrot emoji to hide anti-vax content from automated moderation tools. The BBC has seen several groups, one with hundreds of thousands of members, in which the emoji ...