White knight captures black queen. Checkmate.
A human being can immediately recognize this as a move from a chess game. But to a smart-yet-dumb social media algorithm, it can seem rather sinister: a call to violence, the use of racialized adjectives, and an invocation of what must surely be the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan!
Paul Matzko is a historian of modern conservatism.
