Microsoft, the world’s most valuable company, is “erasing” the suffering of the persecuted Uyghur minority from internet searches in China, The Post has learned.
Results from the tech giant’s Bing search engine show how its Chinese users are presented with different results from American users.
And in the most egregious example, Bing image results for the term “Uyghur” when entered in China display cheerful Uyghurs smiling and dancing — part of a larger propaganda effort to persuade the world Uyghurs lead idyllic lives under Chinese rule.
The Chinese Communist regime in Beijing has run a scorched earth campaign against the Uyghurs, a predominantly-Muslim ethnic minority officially number 12 million people living in Xinjiang province, in the far west of China, which has included imprisoning more than one million in concentration camps since 2017 — and has been officially declared a “genocide” by the State Department.
The U.N. has accused China of “serious human rights violations” but Beijing has denied committing abuses and has even suggested the claims are from “anti-China voices trying to smear China.”These are the contrasting results of searching on Bing for “Uighurs,” also spelled Uyghurs, in the U.S. and in China. Microsoft offers its search engine in China where the Communist Party regime is accused of “genoicide” against the minority ethnic group.
Detailed results asking for images of “Uighurs” on Bing in the US show references to “suffering,” “oppression” and “mass detention.” Thos are words China objects to. And the images also show people wearing blue masks in protest, some of them with a hand in the colors of Communist China over their mouths — a reference to protests for Uyghur rights which have been widespread and use the sky blue flag of the Uighur people.