{"id":889760,"date":"2026-02-03T02:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T08:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/media-misuse-of-hard-right-label-risks-normalizing-extremist-views-study-says\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T02:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T08:12:12","slug":"media-misuse-of-hard-right-label-risks-normalizing-extremist-views-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/media-misuse-of-hard-right-label-risks-normalizing-extremist-views-study-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Media misuse of &#8216;hard-right&#8217; label risks normalizing extremist views, study says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Leading English-language news outlets often misuse the term &#8220;hard-right&#8221; to describe far-right political movements, potentially softening their extremist image and boosting their electoral appeal, according to a new study published in the journal European Political Science. The research, conducted by Dr. Georgios Samaras from King&#8217;s College London&#8217;s School for Government&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-02-media-misuse-hard-extremist-views.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Margarett Center<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Leading English-language news outlets often misuse the term &#8220;hard-right&#8221; to describe far-right political movements, potentially softening their extremist image and boosting their electoral appeal, according to a new study published in the journal European Political Science. The research, conducted by Dr. Georgios Samaras from King&#8217;s College London&#8217;s School for Government&#8230;Read MoreMargarett Center<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":889761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1125,4747,536],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-889760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-media","8":"category-misuse","9":"category-science-nature"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}