Twitter Has Just Launched Its New EU Election Emoji In May 2019

On April 10, Twitter unveiled a new emoji with the theme of the European Parliament election that will take place in May 2019. With the emoji, the company hopes to offer its users a visual link in their channel conversations relating to the next vote sets in the EU.

Twitter has introduced its new emoji to encourage voters to connect with conversations.

Twitter, as well as Google and Facebook, has been under the pressure of public opinion and tried to fight against fake news concerning the elections.

All of the three companies have made a commitment to the European Commission to pull misinformation to avoid unnecessary violations.

The new emoji that has come to the platform sports a ballot paper and a ballot box in EU navy blue. Besides, the ballot paper has a yellow tick mark. Both the ballot paper and ballot box are covered by a ring of stars and enabled when its users use some hashtags like #EP2019 or #EUElections2019.

According to the public policy director of Twitter Karen White,

The European Commission has made a great effort to tackle threats caused by foreign interference and fake news while the parliamentary election campaign takes place. In addition, they also aim to support national elections in Portugal, Poland, Greece, Finland, Estonia, Denmark, and Belgium.