Five years ago, Facebook gave its users five new ways to react to a post in their news feed beyond the iconic “like” thumbs-up: “love,” “haha,” “wow,” “sad” and “angry.” ...

Data scientists raised red flags internally at the company to warn of the dangers associated with the angry emoji reaction. Facebook has now demoted the angry emoji reaction within its algorithm.

The plan was to give emoji reactions such as “love” and “angry” five times the weight of a traditional “like” in Facebook’s secret formula, according to an internal company document.

The international body that decides which new emoji to bring to our keyboards is getting itself into a right fuss over a frowning pile of poop. New emoji are approved every year by the Unicode ...

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Among the available reactions are 'Like', 'Love', 'Haha', 'Sad' and 'Angry.' Since they've been released, the reaction emoji's have been used over 300 billion times. Scroll down for video The ...