I agree. We shouldn't be forced to use the terminology of the aggressors whenever we are attacked like this.
Now the media is telling us we should stop using a term they popularized, by continuing to use the term in their headlines.
Maybe if they just no longer used it, the problem would self-correct itself and we wouldn’t need to chastise ordinary people for using common language.
The media is conveying Interpol’s recommendation, not their own.
But then they would lose the opportunity to shame people for a mistake they made, and this is the MO of the media: gaslighting people into thinking that normal folks are always spreading incorrect information while the media is always on the right side.