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False: This video does not show Uyghur children “being sold” by Chinese traffickers

6 November 202016 February 2021 Purple Romero human trafficking, Uyghur, Xinjiang 3 min read

This video has been manipulated. The audio is a truncated version of a Douyin video featuring two men bargaining over products being sold on the street, which has been added to an unrelated video of a young child model.

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False: This video does not prove PLA is forcing Uyghur families to live with Chinese men

16 January 202019 February 2021 Purple Romero China, Fact Checking, featured, Pla, Uyghur, Xinjiang 2 min read

The claim is unfounded. The man in the video is a vlogger from Hunan province working in Xinjiang.

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