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This Company Monitors Prisoners In Xinjiang. It Won An “Innovation” Award At An Event Sponsored By Amazon.

The Chinese government’s use of prisons and detention camps in Xinjiang is part of what the US and other countries have called a genocide.

16 hours ago

Olympic Officials Dismissed Beijing Games Human Rights Concerns In A Video Call, Documents Show

“I was shocked,” one human rights activist told BuzzFeed News. “How can I explain the cold faces? They were not even acknowledging the suffering.”

23 days ago

Google And Apple Have Caved To Pakistani Pressure To Take Down Apps Made By This Persecuted Religious Minority

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has used anti-blasphemy rules to target members of the Ahmadiyya community.

2 months ago

US Solar Companies Rely On Materials From Xinjiang, Where Forced Labor Is Rampant

“It’s almost impossible to confidently assess the labor conditions in Xinjiang.”

3 months ago

We Found The Factories Inside China’s Mass Internment Camps

Observers have long warned of rising forced labor in Xinjiang. Satellite images show factories built just steps away from cell blocks.

3 months ago

Inside A Xinjiang Detention Camp

In a lush countryside idyll known for its horse farms and fields of yellow flowers, China built a system of total control.

4 months ago

A Uighur Woman Who Was At Risk Of Being Forcibly Sent Back To China And Detained Has Arrived Safely In The US

Tursunay Ziyawudun is among a small number of former detainees who have left China and spoken publicly about their experiences in internment camps in the Xinjiang region.

6 months ago

China Secretly Built A Vast New Infrastructure To Imprison Muslims

China rounded up so many Muslims in Xinjiang that there wasn’t enough space to hold them. Then the government started building.

7 months ago

What They Saw: Ex-Prisoners Detail The Horrors Of China's Detention Camps

Hundreds of thousands of Muslims have been held inside Xinjiang’s camps, but very little is known about life inside. BuzzFeed News spoke to dozens of ex-detainees.

7 months ago

Blanked-Out Spots On China's Maps Helped Us Uncover Xinjiang's Camps

China's Baidu blanked out parts of its mapping platform. We used those locations to find a network of buildings bearing the hallmarks of prisons and internment camps in Xinjiang. Here's how we did it.

7 months ago

Trump Said He Plans To Ban TikTok From The US

Trump has been threatening to ban the popular Chinese-owned video-sharing app, citing national security concerns that the company could be misusing American consumer information.

8 months ago

A British Skin Care Brand Pressured Asian Influencers To Promote Its Skin Whiteners. They Fought Back.

The former editor of Cosmopolitan Sri Lanka had a simple request: "Little girls shouldn't bleach themselves."

9 months ago

The Leaders Of Sleeping Giants Are Splitting Over A Dispute On Credit And Titles

Nandini Jammi is leaving the activist organization she helped build with Matt Rivitz over a dispute about titles, credit, and equality.

9 months ago

The UK May Ban Tear Gas Sales To The US

A letter signed by 166 members of Parliament calls for the UK to stop selling riot control weapons to US police departments.

10 months ago

“Black Lives Matter,” Say These Companies That Sell Skin Lightening Products

"We believe Black people should have the right to live without fear,” wrote Olay on Instagram — at the same time it sold "White Radiance Light Perfecting Essence."

10 months ago

Twitter And Snapchat Are Reining Trump In. Critics Want Them To Do It To Politicians Around The World.

“Politicians in many places have posted worse."

10 months ago

Facebook Will Begin Labeling Posts From State-Controlled Media

The social network also said it will start blocking some ads in the US starting later this summer.

10 months ago

To Build Its COVID-19 Task Force, Las Vegas Partnered With A Company Linked To UAE Intelligence

Group 42 helped provide “vital testing materials" to Las Vegas. It also owns an app that has allegedly been used to spy on people.

10 months ago

A Security Flaw In Qatar's Contact Tracing App Exposed Hundreds Of Thousands Of People's Personal Data

After it was found by Amnesty International, the bug was fixed by the app's developers.

10 months ago

Qatar Has Made Its Coronavirus Contact Tracing App Mandatory

Citizens and residents will be required to download the Ehteraz app when “leaving the house for any reason.”

11 months ago