Politics

Mark Udall Makes Senate History With an Emoji

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This was no ordinary press release.

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Thursday was a watershed day in for political technology: Senator Mark Udall used an emoji in a press release, for likely the first time in history.

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Emoji was created in the mid-1990s in Japan, but it wasn’t until 2011 that the ideograms exploded in global popularity.

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