As President-elect Donald Trump assembles his administration, one theme is becoming clear: he’s surrounding himself with white nationalists.
The media, as a result, has been fumbling with how to cover Trump and his transition team, often downplaying appointed individuals’ white nationalist ideological views as “controversial” or “outsider.” This tactic has drawn criticism from journalists and the public, who have condemned the use of “alt-right” as a sanitized term that obscures racism.
But one man is using technology to hold the media accountable. He created a Google Chrome browser extension “Stop Normalizing Alt Right” that replaces any mention of the term “alt-right” with “white supremacy.”...
https://thinkprogress.org/stop-normalizing-alt-right-chrome-extension-8612024e48f2#.5horfdirc
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