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.

Facebook just expanded the “Like” button with a feature it calls Reactions---six animated emoji the company hopes ... just in time for election season, here's Angry. Perfect for wordlessly ...

In addition to liking posts, Facebook added a wider range of emotions — “Love,” “Ha ha,” “Wow,” “Sad,” and “Angry” — each with a corresponding emoji. Since they were ...