.@AP says it won’t use the term “alt-right” anymore “because it is meant as a euphemism to disguise racist aims.” https://t.co/tQlNpar3bO
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) August 16, 2017
John Daniszewski, AP’s vice president for standards, wrote the post about “how to describe extremists who rallied in Charlottesville” yesterday, Aug. 15, one day after Shaya Tayefe Mohajer wrote in Columbia Journalism Review that it’s time to abandon the term.
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