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Wenn Merkel gut drauf ist, verschickt sie diese Emojis

(If Merkel is in a good mood, she might send out emojis)

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Newspaper | Welt
Date | 16.8.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, politics, YouTube
Summary | A few popular German YouTubers were given the opportunity to interview to most poweful woman on earth, Angela Merkel. The talked about some political issues but the most anticipated question was, which Angela Merkel's favorite emoji is. She responded with "the smiley" and if she is having a really good day, she might throw in a little heart emojis as well.
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Entwaffnend

(Disarming)

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Newspaper | Welt
Date | 3.8.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, politics, punctuation, threat
Summary | Punctuation marks are probably jealous of emojis because they are replacing them! Discussion about emojis is becoming increasingly political. New emojis represent various skin colors, and both men and women for all activities/professions, for instance a female police officer and basketball player. Apple has even decided to replace the gun emoji with a water pistol in light of recent gun violence deaths in the US. Most People however ridicule Apple's move and argue that it is more of a PR stunt than a political statement.
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