Elon Musk's X adds pro-Trump icons for Trump hashtags

Over the weekend, Elon Musk made his support for Donald Trump official by publicly endorsing the former-president shortly after Trump was wounded in the ear by a would-be assassin during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.Now, it appears that Musk’s social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, is also displaying support for Trump.This is, however, apparently paid promotion. “This is a commercially available product,” an X representative told Mashable in an email. X also linked to X’s page of information about paid brand promotion. On Thursday, July 18, some X users began to notice that custom icons were appearing next to certain pro-Trump hashtags. For example, when an X user posts the hashtag #MAGA, a small photo of Trump raising his fist after the shooting, automatically appears next to the hashtag in the post.  Tweet may have been deleted X takes things even further with another pro-Trump hashtag #Trump2024. When a user posts #Trump2024, an American flag icon appears beside the hashtag in the post. If a user clicks on that hashtag, as per usual, they are taken to the search page for #Trump2024 which displays other posts containing the hashtag. However, X has added a custom effect to the #Trump2024 search page: A display of American flags raining down on the page. Tweet may have been deleted X’s pro-Trump custom hashtag icons are a firstX has added emoji-like custom icons next to hashtags before. Those icons appear as part of brand advertising deals for hashtags related to a live event…Elon Musk's X adds pro-Trump icons for Trump hashtags