White pixelization () is a form of digital pixelization, claimed by anti-immigration right-wing groups to be in widespread use in Swedish media. According to this notion, it is common that faces of non-white offenders are digitally lightened before the image is pixelized or blurred in order not to reveal the person's ethnic origin. This is thought of as a kind of censorship with the goal of not revealing relations between Swedish immigration policy and the criminal activities of immigrants. Among that use the term in this sense is the Swedish Metapedia and the Nordic Resistance Movement.
Editor in chief for the newspaper Expressen, Thomas Mattsson has confirmed that white pixelization was earlier performed a few times by Expressen and that it was "possibly correct in a press-ethical sense", but that "it has been policy since he became editor in chief (in 2009) not to use the method". In 2011, editor in chief for Aftonbladet, Jan Helin, said his paper had never done it,
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