#BBC banned in China after explosive report on Uighur rape

#BBC banned in China after explosive report on Uighur rape

“#BBC banned in China after explosive report on Uighur rape” The Chinese government is banning BBC News from landing in its country after the British outlet published an explosive story on alleged torture and rape occurring in Uighur concentration camps. The decision comes one week after Ofcom, the media regulator of the United Kingdom had nixed a license for the…

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#Twitter locks Chinese embassy’s account over Uighur post

#Twitter locks Chinese embassy’s account over Uighur post

“#Twitter locks Chinese embassy’s account over Uighur post” Twitter froze the account of China’s US embassy after it posted a tweet about Uighur Muslims that violated the platform’s policy against “dehumanization.” In the Jan. 7 tweet, the embassy claimed that Uighur women in China’s Xinjiang region had been “emancipated” and were “no longer baby-making machines.”…

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#China possibly committed ‘genocide’ against Xinjiang Muslims

#China possibly committed ‘genocide’ against Xinjiang Muslims

“#China possibly committed ‘genocide’ against Xinjiang Muslims” WASHINGTON – China has possibly committed “genocide” in its treatment of Uighurs and other minority Muslims in its western region of Xinjiang, a bipartisan commission of the US Congress said in a report on Thursday. The Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) said new evidence had emerged in the…

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#How China uses Internet trolls to help cover up its atrocities

#How China uses Internet trolls to help cover up its atrocities

“#How China uses Internet trolls to help cover up its atrocities” The greatest benefit to Big Tech’s otherwise dubious influence over our lives is that it’s impossible for the world’s human-rights violators to hide their crimes. Information that years ago would have been filtered by official, sanitized sources now flows from anyone with the guts…

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#Huawei tested ‘Uighur alarms’ to help track Muslims: report

#Huawei tested ‘Uighur alarms’ to help track Muslims: report

“#Huawei tested ‘Uighur alarms’ to help track Muslims: report” Chinese tech titan Huawei tested a facial-recognition tool that could spot oppressed Uighur Muslims and alert authorities to their presence, surveillance researchers say. Huawei worked with Megvii — one of China’s largest artificial intelligence firms — to validate the “Uighur alarms” as Beijing carried out a…

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