Binance ditched its new Twitter hashtag, unveiled on Hitler’s birthday, for resembling a swastika. It wasn’t the exchange’s first faux pas on the subject. camlearnscrypto reports
, Binance deleted its tweets with the emoji, as did CEO Changpeng Zhao. In a tweet the exchange said a different hashflag would roll out imminently.
“Well that was obviously really embarrassing,” the world’s largest crypto exchange tweeted hours after the reveal. “We’re not sure how that emoji got through several layers of review without anyone noticing,” the tweet continued. The faux pas, which one tipster pointed out coincided with Adolf Hitler’s birthday, isn’t the first time Binance has caught flak for tweets perceived as insensitive to the Jewish community.
In November 2017 it announced it would distribute “GAS” tokens by using a banner ad that prominently displayed a six-pointed star, the same shape as the Star of David. Binance deleted that tweet Wednesday amid the swastika emoji fallout.Binance created the emoji with Twitter’s
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