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There's a guy on here who takes footage of ordinary people doing ordinary things, sets them in China and invents a fantastical and sinister scenario. His account functions as a pretty good aggregator of fake anti-China propaganda from the past few years.
Normal video of a toddler crying in a preschool becomes "this child is crying because China stole their parents." Only one reason that kids cry for their parents at preschool/daycare of course.
This is a repost of purpose-made propaganda. Footage of a fight in a small town is intercut with footage of relatives putting the body of a child who drowned into a dry-ice box so he can be buried in his home town. There is even a Snopes article. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/300-children-found-frozen-alive/
A tourist video of an unnamed old village becomes "China just arrested everyone here, that's why there are no people." The music is replaced and the Douyin/TikTok outro is removed to produce the desired tragic atmosphere.
Another tourist video, from a tour of what looks like a pre-revolution prison that has been converted into a museum. It seems unlikely that a secret Chinese torture prison would have English-language signs.
Couple of old women drinking becomes "China forces Muslims to drink alcohol." I assume he's counting on his English-language audience to see these people as a monolith. The Uyghur people have made wine since the Tang dynasty. https://www.decanterchina.com/en/columns/demeis-view-wine-communication-from-a-chinese-winemaker/musailaisi-the-mysterious-xinjiang-wine
CJ Werleman, who produces very similar disinformation, frequently retweets Arslan. Last year CJ took footage from a celebration and added a sinister "Uyghur Muslims forced to drink beer and eat pork" false caption.
CJ has also made a few posts similar to Arslan's "Uyghur orphanage" videos. Again, kids napping in a daycare became the orphaned children of political prisoners via a false caption.
Arslan and many other accounts have been sharing videos of people on Douyin/TikTok using a crying filter to a sad song. It isn't part of any protest or movement, it's just a popular meme that Arslan and others added a false context to.
This is the second time Arslan and company used a Douyin trend out of context, the first time was back in August with a similar popular meme. The lack of evidence of a movement behind the meme didn't stop one Deutsche Welle writer from promoting it as one.
This is not a torture device being used on Muslims in a Chinese prison, it's a bondage device being demoed in an S&M club in Taiwan. A group of Taiwan journalists did a fact-check, managing to find the original video and speaking to the guy in the video: https://tfc-taiwan.org.tw/articles/379
This is nothing to do with Uyghur people or Xi Jinping or atheism or whatever, it's high school students giving thanks for their teachers before they take their university entrance exams.
Shared widely by the human rights scammers, this story is based on a single article produced by Radio Free Asia, a US state-controlled media arm. No independent verification has been done.
Two kids doing Shaolin Kung Fu training becomes "Chinese evil imperialism in Africa." No evidence they're in Africa, I think the person who runs that account is at least a little bit racist.
The Talk to East Turkestan group even produced custom graphics for this lie.
Again, not a single thing about the viral posts about this are true.
These are not "kids in Africa" who are being "forced" to do anything at all. They are kids training at a kung fu school in Yulin in South China.
They are not "forced to learn Chinese" or "forced to sing a Communist song" or whatever. They are singing a song to help concentrate during endurance training. The original caption: "训练很辛苦, 唱歌我们是认真的" ("Training is very difficult, we sing to keep our composure")
The song they sing is "大中国," (something like "Vast China.") It's a song from the 90s about how China is a big beautiful place where everyone is part of a big family. It's only sinister in the false context given by the scammers. Full lyrics here: https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%A4%A7%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD/7984695
Another video from the same kung fu academy. Tell me this isn't cool as hell.
The guy in this video hasn't been "sent to live with Uyghur families" by the CCP, he's a delivery driver and vlogger in Xinjiang who posts on an app called Watermelon Video.
