Maybe you're overreacting a little bit? This is an automated poop emoji email response from a social media site and you've quickly translated that into "poop emoji = BS = fake news = a tacit endorsement of raw power of the strong over the weak = a public square has been destroyed = we are all in serious trouble".

This isn't DEFCON 2, this isn't our generation's Cuban Missile Crisis, this is a dumb thing that affects nobody and will be forgotten 24hrs from now.