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1) A short description of the issue:

When creating a new media item and passing in a description with special characters, there seem to be cases where the special characters are converted to HTML entities. For example when passing in:

Smelt & a guiness @ Duarte's = happy me

After the media item is created, Google Photos shows:

Smelt & a guiness @ Duarte's = happy me

2) A small code sample that reliably reproduces the issue. The sample should run as-is or with minimal setup.

    const axios = require('axios');

    const params = {
        newMediaItems: [
            {
                description: "Smelt & a guiness @ Duarte's = happy me",
                simpleMediaItem: {
                    uploadToken: <TOKEN>
                }
            }
        ]
    };

    axios.post('https://photoslibrary.googleapis.com/v1/mediaItems:batchCreate', params, {
        headers: {
            'Content-type': 'application/json',
            Authorization: `Bearer ${token}`
        }
    }).then((res) => {
        // Do something with the response
    });

3) The calls to the API that lead to the error. Include the sequence of calls, including request headers and body.
Do not include any personal information, authentication secrets, media item or album IDs.

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Add any media item with the description: Smelt & a guiness @ Duarte's = happy me
2. The description will display as follows in Google Photos: Smelt &amp; a guiness @ Duarte&#39;s = happy me

4) What is the expected output? What do you see instead?  If you see error messages, please provide them.

For this example, I expected the output to be:

Smelt & a guiness @ Duarte's = happy me

and instead it is:

Smelt &amp; a guiness @ Duarte&#39;s = happy me

5) Please provide any additional information below.

Please let me know if there's anything else that I can provide that'd be helpful.