The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, came to the fore with a reactionary emoji on Adolf Hitler’s birthday. Binance, which updated its Twitter profile description, added an emoji to Twitter that everyone can use. This emoji, with the Binance logo, also featured a symbol that society generally did not welcome at all.
The emoji that Binance put on his profile was the swastika symbol that was engraved with the Nazis, with the Binance logo in the middle. This icon started appearing next to the hashtags in every Tweet on Twitter that used the hashtag ‘#Binance’ and ‘#BNB’. After the immediate increased reactions, a statement came from Binance on the subject.
Binance’s swastika emoji
Binance shared on his Twitter account, “Well, that was really embarrassing. We’re not sure how this emoji got through several layers of scrutiny without anyone noticing, but we’ve flagged the issue right away, retracted it, and the new emoji design is rolling out now as we speak.” used the expressions.
It is not an unfortunate coincidence that Binance’s swastika emoji was made available on Hitler’s birthday. But it is also known that this symbol dates back to prehistoric times and has different meanings. Although the swastika symbol is associated with Nazis, national socialism and far-right ideologies today, it is used as a ‘good luck and charity’ symbol in countries with Hindu, Buddhist or Jain beliefs such as Nepal, India, Mongolia, China (Binance was founded in China) and Japan. is being used.
Binance replaced the logo with the swastika with the following logo
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