> In total there were 5 million masked tiles across Xinjiang. They seemed to cover any area of even the slightest strategic importance — military bases and training grounds, prisons, power plants, but also mines and some commercial and industrial facilities. There were far too many locations for us to sort through, so we narrowed it down by focusing on the areas around cities and towns and major roads.
Translation: we looked at satellite photos of random buildings and determined that they were "camps" because of unspecified "hallmarks".
This is literally a Buzzfeed article. One of the people they cite once tried to do something similar by claiming an 800 year old mosque was demolished when it was actually the building next door built in the 90s(by his own admission[0]). In fact it seems they seemed to have been expanding/renovating the mosque[1][2].
> Of the six camps that we used in our feasibility study, five had blank tiles at their location at zoom level 18 in Baidu,
They "correlated" that out of 6 "camps" 5 of them had missing tiles, which gives you the chance of a blanked out tile give a "camp", but not the chance of a "camp" given blanked out tile.
Translation: we looked at satellite photos of random buildings and determined that they were "camps" because of unspecified "hallmarks".
This is literally a Buzzfeed article. One of the people they cite once tried to do something similar by claiming an 800 year old mosque was demolished when it was actually the building next door built in the 90s(by his own admission[0]). In fact it seems they seemed to have been expanding/renovating the mosque[1][2].
[0] https://medium.com/@shawnwzhang/clarification-of-keriya-etik...
[1] https://miro.medium.com/max/1106/1*_OL9z1ndMVuqZQ7_XxwYLQ.pn...
[2] https://geopoliticsalert.com/keriya-aitika-mosque