As emoji and their relative the emoticon have rocketed from web slang to the unofficial language of the Internet age, the case is one of a growing number where authorities contend the cartoonish ...

Official names tell one story. Real usage tells another. Here are the emojis most often misread, plus what people actually ...

Binance, a cryptocurrency exchange, had to remove a Twitter emoji that looked like a swastika after a number of internet users pointed out the resemblance. In late April 2022, the company revealed a ...

Fairfield University Professor Rajasree Rajamma studies how emojis impact consumer understanding and brand communication, focusing on how misinterpretation leads to confusion.

Consider the tilde. There it is, that little squiggle, hanging out on the far-upper-left-hand side of your ­computer keyboard. The symbol dates back to ancient Greece, though tilde comes from Spanish, ...