diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 4c52617..6ddaa30 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1427,6 +1427,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys 0.52.0",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "html-escape"
+version = "0.2.13"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "6d1ad449764d627e22bfd7cd5e8868264fc9236e07c752972b4080cd351cb476"
+dependencies = [
+ "utf8-width",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "html5ever"
 version = "0.26.0"
@@ -3168,6 +3177,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "async-graphql-rocket",
  "css-inline",
  "glog",
+ "html-escape",
  "linkify",
  "log",
  "lol_html",
@@ -4139,6 +4149,12 @@ version = "0.7.6"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "09cc8ee72d2a9becf2f2febe0205bbed8fc6615b7cb429ad062dc7b7ddd036a9"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "utf8-width"
+version = "0.1.7"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "86bd8d4e895da8537e5315b8254664e6b769c4ff3db18321b297a1e7004392e3"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "uuid"
 version = "1.10.0"
diff --git a/server/Cargo.toml b/server/Cargo.toml
index b270683..d23b4f2 100644
--- a/server/Cargo.toml
+++ b/server/Cargo.toml
@@ -30,4 +30,5 @@ maplit = "1.0.2"
 linkify = "0.10.0"
 sqlx = { version = "0.7.4", features = ["postgres", "runtime-tokio", "time"] }
 url = "2.5.2"
+html-escape = "0.2.13"
 
diff --git a/server/src/error.rs b/server/src/error.rs
index bee0e9d..7797c16 100644
--- a/server/src/error.rs
+++ b/server/src/error.rs
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ use std::{convert::Infallible, str::Utf8Error, string::FromUtf8Error};
 use mailparse::MailParseError;
 use thiserror::Error;
 
-use crate::SanitizeError;
+use crate::TransformError;
 
 #[derive(Error, Debug)]
 pub enum ServerError {
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ pub enum ServerError {
     PartNotFound,
     #[error("sqlx error: {0}")]
     SQLXError(#[from] sqlx::Error),
-    #[error("html sanitize error: {0}")]
-    SanitizeError(#[from] SanitizeError),
+    #[error("html transform error: {0}")]
+    TransformError(#[from] TransformError),
     #[error("UTF8 error: {0}")]
     Utf8Error(#[from] Utf8Error),
     #[error("FromUTF8 error: {0}")]
diff --git a/server/src/lib.rs b/server/src/lib.rs
index 7b2018e..1c4cd51 100644
--- a/server/src/lib.rs
+++ b/server/src/lib.rs
@@ -11,14 +11,49 @@ use maplit::{hashmap, hashset};
 use thiserror::Error;
 use url::Url;
 
+// TODO: figure out how to use Cow
+trait Transformer {
+    fn should_run(&self, input: &str) -> bool;
+    // TODO: should input be something like `html_escape` uses:
+    // <S: ?Sized + AsRef<str>>(text: &S) -> Cow<str>
+    fn transform(&self, input: &str) -> Result<String, TransformError>;
+}
+
+// TODO: how would we make this more generic to allow good implementations of Transformer outside
+// of this module?
 #[derive(Error, Debug)]
-pub enum SanitizeError {
+pub enum TransformError {
     #[error("lol-html rewrite error")]
     RewritingError(#[from] RewritingError),
     #[error("css inline error")]
     InlineError(#[from] InlineError),
 }
 
+struct SanitizeHtml<'a> {
+    cid_prefix: &'a str,
+    base_url: &'a Option<Url>,
+}
+
+impl<'a> Transformer for SanitizeHtml<'a> {
+    fn should_run(&self, _input: &str) -> bool {
+        true
+    }
+    fn transform(&self, input: &str) -> Result<String, TransformError> {
+        Ok(sanitize_html(input, self.cid_prefix, self.base_url)?)
+    }
+}
+
+struct EscapeHtml;
+
+impl Transformer for EscapeHtml {
+    fn should_run(&self, input: &str) -> bool {
+        input.starts_with("&lt")
+    }
+    fn transform(&self, input: &str) -> Result<String, TransformError> {
+        Ok(html_escape::decode_html_entities(input).to_string())
+    }
+}
+
 pub fn linkify_html(text: &str) -> String {
     let mut finder = LinkFinder::new();
     let finder = finder.url_must_have_scheme(false).kinds(&[LinkKind::Url]);
@@ -51,7 +86,7 @@ pub fn sanitize_html(
     html: &str,
     cid_prefix: &str,
     base_url: &Option<Url>,
-) -> Result<String, SanitizeError> {
+) -> Result<String, TransformError> {
     let mut element_content_handlers = vec![
         // Open links in new tab
         element!("a[href]", |el| {
@@ -86,10 +121,7 @@ pub fn sanitize_html(
         element_content_handlers.extend(vec![
             // Make links with relative URLs absolute
             element!("a[href]", |el| {
-                if let Some(Ok(href)) = el.get_attribute("href").map(|href| {
-                    info!("href {href:?}");
-                    base_url.join(&href)
-                }) {
+                if let Some(Ok(href)) = el.get_attribute("href").map(|href| base_url.join(&href)) {
                     el.set_attribute("href", &href.as_str()).unwrap();
                 }
 
@@ -98,7 +130,6 @@ pub fn sanitize_html(
             // Make images with relative srcs absolute
             element!("img[src]", |el| {
                 if let Some(Ok(src)) = el.get_attribute("src").map(|src| base_url.join(&src)) {
-                    info!("src {src:?}");
                     el.set_attribute("src", &src.as_str()).unwrap();
                 }
 
diff --git a/server/src/newsreader.rs b/server/src/newsreader.rs
index dafd350..4fc579a 100644
--- a/server/src/newsreader.rs
+++ b/server/src/newsreader.rs
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ const THREAD_PREFIX: &'static str = "news:";
 use crate::{
     error::ServerError,
     graphql::{Body, Email, Html, Message, Tag, Thread, ThreadSummary},
-    sanitize_html,
+    EscapeHtml, SanitizeHtml, Transformer,
 };
 
 pub fn is_newsreader_search(query: &str) -> bool {
@@ -207,13 +207,24 @@ pub async fn thread(pool: &PgPool, thread_id: String) -> Result<Thread, ServerEr
             }
         }
     });
-    let html = r.summary.unwrap_or("NO SUMMARY".to_string());
+    let mut html = r.summary.unwrap_or("NO SUMMARY".to_string());
     // TODO: add site specific cleanups. For example:
     // * Grafana does <div class="image-wrapp"><img class="lazyload>"<img src="/media/...>"</img></div>
     // * Some sites appear to be HTML encoded, unencode them, i.e. imperialviolent
-    let html = sanitize_html(&html, "", &link)?;
+    let tranformers: Vec<Box<dyn Transformer>> = vec![
+        Box::new(EscapeHtml),
+        Box::new(SanitizeHtml {
+            cid_prefix: "",
+            base_url: &link,
+        }),
+    ];
+    for t in tranformers.iter() {
+        if t.should_run(&html) {
+            html = t.transform(&html)?;
+        }
+    }
     let body = Body::Html(Html {
-        html,
+        html: html.to_string(),
         content_tree: "".to_string(),
     });
     let title = r.title.unwrap_or("NO TITLE".to_string());