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Anyone who adheres to the AP Stylebook, a hegemonic force in journalism, can’t refer to “illegal immigrants,” must capitalize “black” and has to observe right-think on transgender pronouns.

Not only do newspapers, magazines, and websites across the country source stories from the news agency’s wire service—which these publications pay for in order to reprint important news—but the AP publishes the most influential style guide in the industry, the Associated Press Stylebook.

In its complaint, the AP disclosed that White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, a named defendant, said that the White House admitted to targeting the AP because the stylebook is “used by many as a standard for writing and editing” and by “journalists, scholars and classrooms around our country.”

Put it in the Associated Press Stylebook, stat.

The AP maintains a stylebook that is used by many publications.