[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #53851: HTML entities show in dashboard 'Events and News' widget

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#53851: HTML entities show in dashboard 'Events and News' widget
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 Reporter:                |       Owner:  (none)
  alanjacobmathew         |
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  5.9
Component:  Widgets       |     Version:  4.8
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch     |     Focuses:  ui, accessibility, administration
  needs-testing           |
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Comment (by whyisjake):

 I feel like @iandunn did some similar work around this a little while ago.
 I think we should keep escaping the output as we can't trust an external
 API (even tho WordPress controls it).

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