Podcasts about megha rajagopalan

In collaboration with Marymount Manhattan College and their Social Justice Academy: Labor, Work, Action, Doorstep co-host Tatiana Serafin speaks with New York Times investigative reporter Megha Rajagopalan about human rights abuses in the global sugar trade and the challenges of holding governments and corporations accountable. For more, please go to: https://carnegiecouncil.co/doorstep-rajagopalan

I told you at the top of the year I wanted to branch out in terms of stories and intel, I am confident I can keep you informed on interesting tidbits that are starting to form across the world, and one area that always keeps my fascination is the work of global intelligence agencies, across our planet. This week I caught a story written and investigated by William K. Rashbaum, and I am going to butcher this name, Megha Rajagopalan, both NY Times journalist. The headline is very curious: WITH FBI SEARCH US ESCALATES GLOBAL FIGHT OVER CHINESE POLICE OUTPOSTS. What I find odd, is first how on earth are Chinese Police functioning on United States soil, what are these outposts that they speak of. Would it be odd, if we had NYPD in China, I think so, but maybe I am just uniformed.

Last month, new photos and documents surrounding China's internment camps in Xinjiang came to light. These documents further exposed China's efforts against the minority Uyghur population through forced labor, sterilization, and even torture. Holding China's suppression campaign together is a sophisticated mass surveillance infrastructure comprised of advanced facial recognition, mobile phone tracking, and more.BuzzFeed's Megha Rajagopalan, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her coverage on Xinjiang, helps Doug unpack the significance of the leaked documents, how China's campaign against the Uyghurs has evolved in recent years, and China's intricate mass surveillance apparatus.Follow Doug on Twitter @DouglasLFarrar. The 2021 Pulitzer Prize Winner in International Reporting: Megha Rajagopalan, Alison Killing and Christo Buschek of BuzzFeed News. (2021). The Pulitzer Prizes.

Modesty, honesty, care and time, together with varying doses of obsession and concern, are recurring themes in Megha Rajagopalan's story of how she became a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist investigating human rights issues. Megha talks about what it takes to develop and respect sources, to pursue topics, and to embrace collaboration with people from other professional backgrounds in order to reveal a different narrative."You don't want to immediately frame everything you do as an investigation. It may be that you've produced something that uncovers some kind of wrongdoing, but I guess to term it as an investigation from the outset, it's almost like you're predetermining what the final result is going to be."

Megha Rajagopalan is a reporter for Buzzfeed News, winning the 2021 Pulitzer Prize Award for her reporting exposing the scale of internment of Uighur Muslims in China. She joined Abhay to chat about her reporting, about her journey, and about her recent award.

Megha Rajagopalan is a senior correspondent for Buzzfeed News. She won a Pulitzer for her coverage of the Xinjiang detention camps.“It's not so much that I talk to [the Chinese government] to get information. It's more that I talk to them to see how they think about things and what's important to them and what's their view of the world. … There are so many journalists that have been thrown out of China, so there's very few people that are able to actually have those conversations. And in the U.S., there are these seismic decisions being made about China policy, and if you don't talk to the people that run the country, it's a problem.” Thanks to Mailchimp for sponsoring this week's episode. Show notes: @meghara Rajagopalan on Longform Rajagopalan's Buzzfeed News archive 21:00 "This Is What A 21st-Century Police State Really Looks Like" (Buzzfeed News • Oct 2017) 35:00 Rajagopalan's Pulitzer-winning reporting with Alison Killing and Christo Buschek 41:00 "China Secretly Built A Vast New Infrastructure To Imprison Muslims (Part 1)" (Alison Killing, Christo Buschek, Megha Rajagopalan • Buzzfeed News • Aug 2020) 41:00 "What They Saw: Ex-Prisoners Detail The Horrors Of China's Detention Camps (Part 2)" (Alison Killing, Megha Rajagopalan • Buzzfeed News • Aug 2020) 41:00 "Inside a Xinjiang Detention Camp (Part 3)" (Alison Killing, Megha Rajagopalan • Buzzfeed News • Dec 2020) 41:00 "We Found The Factories Inside China's Mass Internment Camps (Part 4)" (Alison Killing, Megha Rajagopalan • Buzzfeed News • Dec 2020) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

"A love letter to journalists." A fitting description for the film Spotlight and possibly this podcast. For our 50th episode, we look back at the 2015 movie and hear views on the movie from eight past guests.     Guests in order of appearance: Ep. 3 - Camilla Costa, BBC, London (@_camillacosta) Ep. 9 - Brian Rosenthal, New York Times, New York (@brianmrosenthal) Ep. 20 - Terrence Edwards, Bloomberg, Mongolia (@TerryReports) Ep. 21 - Paul Schrodt, Freelance, Los Angeles (@paulschrodt) Ep. 22 - Megha Rajagopalan, BuzzFeed News, London (@meghara) Ep. 24 - Aarti Betigeri, Freelance, Australia (@pomegranitaa) Ep. 27 - Ed Clowes, formerly The Telegraph (@EdClowes) Ep. 38 - Joanna Kakissis, NPR, Greece (@joannakakissis)   Follow us on Twitter @foreignpod or on Facebook at facebook.com/foreignpod Music: LoveChances (makaihbeats.net) by Makaih Beats From: freemusicarchive.org CC BY NC

How and why is China imprisoning millions of Uighurs in their western province of Xinjiang? BuzzFeed News journalists Megha Rajagopalan and Alison Killing join the podcast to talk about how their reporting uncovered a vast network of secret internment camps in Xinjiang.  We discuss how they found the camps despite coverups from the CCP, what life is like for Uighurs and other ethnic minorities in those camps, and why China continues to commit human rights violations in Xinjiang at a massive scale. Read Megha and Alison's groundbreaking work on BuzzFeed News: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/china-new-internment-camps-xinjiang-uighurs-muslims https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alison_killing/china-ex-prisoners-horrors-xinjiang-camps-uighurs https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/inside-xinjiang-detention-camp https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alison_killing/xinjiang-camps-china-factories-forced-labor To make sure you hear every episode, join our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/neoliberalproject. Patrons get access to exclusive bonus episodes, our sticker-of-the-month club, and our insider Slack.  Become a supporter today! Got questions for the Neoliberal Podcast?  Send them to mailbag@neoliberalproject.org Follow us at: https://twitter.com/ne0liberal https://www.facebook.com/groups/1930401007051265/   Join a local chapter at https://neoliberalproject.org/join  

The new Coronavirus vaccines are coming soon to people in Britain - but there's a dissenting view from America that's asking for more transparency over the trial data – we speak with Dr Lawrence Gostin, Professor of Global Health Law at Georgetown University in Washington DC, to discuss the tough line between collective health and individual freedom, as many question whether or not to take the vaccine. Plus, as the EU strikes an investment agreement with China, we look at the recent discovery of the forced labour factories inside China's internment camps in Xinjiang; we speak with Megha Rajagopalan of BuzzFeed News who used pioneering architectural and aerial expertise to find the hidden labour factories. We discuss all this with guests Jyoti Malhotra, National & Strategic Affairs Editor at The Print, in Delhi, and Ralph Silva of the Silva Research Network in Toronto. (Image: A vaccination centre in London. Photo by Justin Tallis/ AFP / Getty Images)

Ryan talks with Megha Rajagopalan, a world correspondent for BuzzFeed News, about her reporting in China about human rights and how history informs our understanding of geopolitics.Megha Rajagopalan is a world correspondent for BuzzFeed News. She has covered major stories in Asia and the Middle East, and has been based in China, Thailand, Israel and the Palestinian territories. Megha has also written for numerous other outlets and has appeared on NPR, BBC World News, CNN, and other outlets.This episode is brought to you by Fast Growing Trees, the online nursery that delivers beautiful plants to your doorstep quickly and easily. Whether it’s magnificent shade trees, fruit trees with delicious apples and pears, privacy hedges, or beautiful flowers, Fast Growing Trees is the best place to buy your plants. And their 30-day Alive and Thrive guarantee means that you’ll be happy with whatever you buy. Visit FastGrowingTrees.com/stoic now and get ten percent off your entire order.This episode is also brought to you by the Jordan Harbinger Show. Jordan's podcast is one of the most interesting ones out there, with guests like Kobe Bryant, Mark Manson, Eric Schmidt, and more. Listen to one of Ryan's episodes right now (1, 2), and subscribe to the Jordan Harbinger Show today.***If you enjoyed this week’s podcast, we’d love for you to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. It helps with our visibility, and the more people listen to the podcast, the more we can invest into it and make it even better.Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/signupFollow @DailyStoic:Twitter: https://twitter.com/dailystoicInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic/Facebook: http://facebook.com/dailystoicYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/dailystoicFollow Megha Rajagopalan:Twitter: https://twitter.com/megharaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/megmeghara/

Annie and Nick talk with BuzzFeed News international correspondent Megha Rajagopalan about the controversial marketing of skin-lightening products in Asia and Africa by global beauty corporations (the same ones that expressed social-media solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement). Rajagopalan's reporting has added to the mounting pressure these companies are facing from citizens and media alike to rethink (and, potentially, discontinue) the problematic yet popular "skin-lightening" or "skin-whitening" category. Plus, Annie and Nick try to unpack Alicia Keys' new Keys Soulcare concept, and discuss some good news (magic mushrooms?) and bad news (COVID-19) for those struggling with depression. And so much more.... Find Megha on Twitter: https://twitter.com/meghara Megha can be reached at megha.rajagopalan@buzzfeed.com (mailto:megha.rajagopalan@buzzfeed.com) .

China has been massively expanding Uyghur Concentration Camps in Xinjiang, according to a review of satellite images by Buzzfeed News' Megha Rajagopalan, Alison Killing and Christo Buschek. Combined with the exposure from Disney's live action release of Mulan, which was filmed in Xinjiang, and the horrible crimes of the Chinese Communist Party is being revealed for the world to see. Buzzfeed Investigation Part 1 https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/china-new-internment-camps-xinjiang-uighurs-muslims Part 2 https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alison_killing/china-ex-prisoners-horrors-xinjiang-camps-uighurs Follow Megha on Twitter! @meghara

All Hail the Emperor LeBron Today's topics include: They call him King of the NBA, but nobody loves him more than China where they call him The Emperor. But is Mr. Social Justice just playing games with us? When Chinese slaves are making the jerseys and Nike shoes players like LeBron wear and make money endorsing, it appears the Emperor…has no clothes. Then, as President and second-generation owner of Melron Corp in Wisconsin, Debby Flood has made her father’s business bigger, more modern, and more competitive…and she gives all the credit to Donald Trump. She’s here to explain her powerful remarks at the RNC Convention last night. Then John talks with Megha Rajagopalan about the new information she's discovered that China is imprisoning Muslim minorities in concentration camps.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Megha Rajagopalan is an award-winning international correspondent for BuzzFeed News, based in London. In this conversation recorded on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean in London and New York, Megha and NüVoices board member Chenni Xu discuss Megha's career trajectory from the U.S. to China, the Middle East, and beyond. This includes her award-winning reporting, her time on the board of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China, and musings about the current and future direction of foreign correspondence and journalism in China. The pair also discuss whether the "golden age" of reporting in China is really over, their respective residencies in Beijing in the 2010s, and what has changed: from hutong food and beverage closures to more draconian measures taken by the government to censor civil society and the media.Recommendations:Megha: Say Nothing, by Patrick Radden Keefe, and Three Women, by Lisa Taddeo.Chenni: FX/Hulu's portentous new show on the second-wave feminists, Mrs. America, and Peter Hessler's River Town.Like the podcasts at SupChina? Help us out by taking this brief survey.

Megha Rajagopalan (@meghara) brings top-notch investigative journalism to Buzzfeed - yes, the site that rose to prominence based on listicles. She installed Buzzfeed’s first bureau in Beijing, only to be kicked out of the country after revealing the depths of China’s police state. Reporting on surveillance and human rights has been the hallmark of her career, from writing about Myanmar’s opening up to following around Filipino police officers committing atrocities. We talk about the questionable endeavor that is pursuing a journalism degree (5:08), cutting her teeth covering politics for Reuters in Beijing (14:22), starting Buzzfeed’s bureau in China (24:00), her bombshell story on China’s muslim internment camps and getting kicked out of China (29:30), moving to Israel and then London (41:19), missing out on a trip to Tibet and her prospects for ever returning to China (44:17), her story on U.S. government funding for Filipino police committing atrocities in their war on drugs (50:54), and she takes on the lightning round (58:45).   Here are links to some of the things we talked about: My exclusive about Brazil’s environmental protections under coronavirus - https://reut.rs/2WQbRFN My story on Brazil meat exports to China stalling under coronovirus - https://reut.rs/2x66jwq Steve Coll’s Private Empire: Exxonmobil and American power - https://amzn.to/3bMAuHG Michael Lewis essay J-School Confidential - https://buff.ly/39Yx1Vn Megha’s story about Xinjiang internment camps - https://bit.ly/2waFzdM Her story about US-support for Philippines atrocities - https://bit.ly/348bnN8 David Sanger’s The Perfect Weapon - https://amzn.to/2V1wpsr Mike Forsythe on Twitter - https://bit.ly/2X4MO26 Rukmini Callimachi on Twitter - http://bit.ly/2Vfw7hz Nikole Hannah-Jones on Twitter - https://bit.ly/39I9V55 John Hersey’s Hiroshima - https://amzn.to/3aMrQcq Wall Street Journal’s Pulitzer-winning “9 to Nowhere” - https://bit.ly/3dUHTXC   Follow us on Twitter @foreignpod or on Facebook at facebook.com/foreignpod Music: LoveChances (makaihbeats.net) by Makaih Beats From: freemusicarchive.org CC BY NC

Plus... The Fox News pardon pipeline; how censorship stifles essential journalism during a crisis; as the 2020 election escalates, so do the "Meme Wars"; Southern rock strikes a new chord in the Trump era. Oliver Darcy, Julia Ioffe, Marko Suprun, Errol Lewis, Taylor Lorenz, David Frum, Tim O'Brien, Megha Rajagopalan, Kim Dozier and Drive-By Truckers' frontmen Mike Cooley and Patterson Hood join John Avlon.

BuzzFeed News reporter Megha Rajagopalan describes how China uses high-tech surveillance to monitor its Muslim minority and assesses whether this technology will soon be ubiquitous among the world's dictatorships.

Over the past few years, China has increased its internment and surveillance of the Uyghur people for expressing their culture and Muslim religion. This has spread to the diaspora, where the community lives in fear of retaliation for family members back home, even for something as basic as teaching the Uyghur language itself. So, Ahmed talks to journalist Megha Rajagopalan about her groundbreaking reporting and the context for China’s growing surveillance state. Then, he talks to activist and teacher Irade Kashgary, co-founder Ana Care and Education, a Uyghur cultural and linguistic after-school program for kids and young adults in Northern Virginia.  Special thanks to Munawwar Abdulla for production support and guidance on this episode. Donate to the Patreon to help support the show: https://www.patreon.com/ahmedaliakbar. Your support means the world to us. $10 donors get access to exclusive content Follow Ahmed on Instagram and Twitter: @radbrowndads. Follow Megha @Meghara Follow Irade @IradeKashgary Links from the episode: thetarimnetwork.com, https://www.norightsnogames.org, and https://www.anacareeducation.com/. Fill out this survey so we can get some advertising revenue: http://survey.libsyn.com/seesomethingsaysomething. Follow the show @seesomething and facebook.com/seesomethingpodcast. Email Ahmed at radbrowndads@gmail.com. Our music is by The Kominas, follow them at @TheRealKominas and kominas.bandcamp.com.

Facial recognition has moved beyond matching two grainy photos. Abundant, networked cameras, cheap data storage, and powerful AI has made biometric surveillance more invasive than ever. China has built a massive surveillance state designed to monitor and incarcerate Uighur Muslims in the Xinjiang region, and now Chinese firms are trying to sell those same tools to countries in the Gulf. But they're not alone. U.S. firms, like IBM, Amazon, and Microsoft, also spy a lucrative new market. Jen talks to Buzzfeed's Megha Rajagopalan about how this technology has changed, how it is being used around the world, and how it might be regulated. Read more of Megha's reporting: Facial Recognition Technology Is Facing A Huge Backlash In The US. But Some Of The World's Biggest Tech Companies Are Trying To Sell It In The Gulf Here's How China Uses An App To Repress Muslims China Has Also Been Targeting Foreigners In Its Brutal Crackdown On Muslims US Universities And Retirees Are Funding The Technology Behind China's Surveillance State

June 4th, 2019 marks the 30th anniversary of the bloody culmination of the Chinese government´s Tiananmen Massacre of pro-democracy students and activists. But all public discussion and memories of the massacre have been erased within China itself. In our second episode from the Oslo Freedom Forum we will take a trip behind the Great Firewall into modern day China where the most ambitious and sophisticated attempt to control the flow and content of information in the history of mankind is taking place. To enlighten us, we sat down with Megha Rajagopalan who is a world correspondent for BuzzFeed News and Yuan Yang who is Financial Times´s Beijing correspondent.  In this discussion we explore: The structure of Chinese online censorship and surveillance, in terms of scope and purpose. How the Chinese Government applies new technologies like facial recognition and AI to ensure conformity in thoughts and action.   How the online public is being ‘flooded’ with pro-government propaganda in order to suppress criticism. How Xinjiang province has been turned into a surveillance police state How Western Companies, who enjoy the protection of the rule of law, play a role in the Chinese censorship system How China is exporting its super charged system on censorship beyond its borders, and why even western liberal democracies may not be immune. How the extensive censorship may actually limit the Chinese government´s endeavors to control and monitor its citizens. Why there may still be grounds for optimism Megha Rajagopalan is a world correspondent for BuzzFeed News and is based in the Middle East. She is the former China bureau chief for BuzzFeed and political correspondent for Reuters in Beijing. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, TIME, WIRED, and other publications. Yuan Yang is a Beijing correspondent for the Financial Times and writes about China’s technology. Before that, she wrote about development economics as a Marjorie Deane intern for the Economist in London. She is the co-founder of Rethinking Economics, a charity that seeks to make economics teaching more relevant to the 21st century. Why have kings, emperors, and governments killed and imprisoned people to shut them up? And why have countless people risked death and imprisonment to express their beliefs? Jacob Mchangama guides you through the history of free speech from the trial of Socrates to the Great Firewall. You can subscribe and listen to Clear and Present Danger on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, YouTube, TuneIn, and Stitcher, or download episodes directly from SoundCloud. Stay up to date with Clear and Present Danger on the show’s Facebook and Twitter pages, or visit the podcast’s website at freespeechhistory.com. Email us feedback at freespeechhistory@gmail.com.

The Uyghur minority in the Xinjiang region of Western China are the subject of an intense crackdown by the state, with up to one million Uyghur people being held without charge in so-called "re-education" camps. The crisis presents a unique set of challenges for journalists reporting on human rights in the 21st century. Producer Cheyne Anderson speaks to Buzzfeed News world correspondent Megha Rajagopalan, who won a 2018 Human Rights Press Award for her reporting on the crackdown.

After working in China for six years on many stories unfavorable to the Chinese government, in 2018 journalist Megha Rajagopalan's visa was not renewed, forcing her to leave China abruptly. Why? She's still not sure and says that the government uses ambiguity very deliberately, causing Chinese and foreigners alike to self-censor, as they don't know where the lines are. How does this affect the flow of information and Chinese society as a whole?

After working in China for six years on many stories unfavorable to the Chinese government, in 2018 journalist Megha Rajagopalan's visa was not renewed, forcing her to leave China abruptly. Why? She's still not sure and says that the government uses ambiguity very deliberately, causing Chinese and foreigners alike to self-censor, as they don't know where the lines are. How does this affect the flow of information and Chinese society as a whole?

Megha Rajagopalan is a foreign correspondent for BuzzFeed News. She is one of Jay's favorite reporters. She grew up in Maryland, and for years reported from China. She is now in the Middle East. She and Jay talk mainly about China: the pleasures and perils of reporting from there; the mass round-up of the Uyghurs; the ability of ordinary Chinese to find out the truth about their country; and so on. Source

In this fascinating and compelling panel on Why Decentralization Matters at the Oslo Freedom Forum in New York, I spoke with Alejandro Machado, a researcher at Zcash; Amber Baldet, founder and CEO of Clovyr, a decentralized software and developer tools company; Andy Bromberg, cofounder and president of CoinList, a compliant token offering platform; and Megha Rajagopalan, correspondent for Buzzfeed and former China bureau chief. In this discussion, we cover what is happening in authoritarian regimes like China and Venezuela that highlight the importance of decentralized technologies, how people in those countries are using crypto assets, and how technologists think about decentralization and censorship-resistance. We also talk about the usability issues of decentralized technologies and how people in authoritarian regimes can even get access to them. Plus, we also look at how bad state actors are also using the same technology to oppress people or evade sanctions. Thank you to our sponsors! StartEngine: https://www.startengine.com Episode links: PC Mag story on how cryptocurrency is both "an oppressor and a lifeline" in Venezuela: https://www.pcmag.com/feature/362486/in-venezuela-cryptocurrency-is-an-oppressor-and-a-lifeline Naval on Unchained talking about how money is now speech: http://unchainedpodcast.co/naval-ravikant-on-how-crypto-is-squeezing-vcs-hindering-regulators-and-bringing-users-choice Google's Dragonfly project: https://theintercept.com/2018/09/14/google-china-prototype-links-searches-to-phone-numbers/ For more on how decentralization and blockchain technology can help Alex Gladstein of the Human Rights Foundation on Unconfirmed: http://unconfirmed.libsyn.com/alex-gladstein-of-the-human-rights-foundation-on-the-first-crypto-war-ep021 A previous interview with Amber Baldet on Unconfirmed: http://unconfirmed.libsyn.com/sxsw-episode-amber-baldet-blockchain-program-lead-at-jpmorgan-on-the-potential-clash-between-blockchains-and-the-right-to-be-forgotten A previous interview with Andy Bromberg on Unconfirmed: http://unconfirmed.libsyn.com/coinlists-andy-bromberg-on-the-one-big-regulatory-issue-facing-crypto-ep030

In this fascinating and compelling panel on Why Decentralization Matters at the Oslo Freedom Forum in New York, I spoke with Alejandro Machado, a researcher at Zcash; Amber Baldet, founder and CEO of Clovyr, a decentralized software and developer tools company; Andy Bromberg, cofounder and president of CoinList, a compliant token offering platform; and Megha Rajagopalan, correspondent for Buzzfeed and former China bureau chief. In this discussion, we cover what is happening in authoritarian regimes like China and Venezuela that highlight the importance of decentralized technologies, how people in those countries are using crypto assets, and how technologists think about decentralization and censorship-resistance. We also talk about the usability issues of decentralized technologies and how people in authoritarian regimes can even get access to them. Plus, we also look at how bad state actors are also using the same technology to oppress people or evade sanctions. Thank you to our sponsors! StartEngine: https://www.startengine.com Episode links: PC Mag story on how cryptocurrency is both "an oppressor and a lifeline" in Venezuela: https://www.pcmag.com/feature/362486/in-venezuela-cryptocurrency-is-an-oppressor-and-a-lifeline Naval on Unchained talking about how money is now speech: http://unchainedpodcast.co/naval-ravikant-on-how-crypto-is-squeezing-vcs-hindering-regulators-and-bringing-users-choice Google's Dragonfly project: https://theintercept.com/2018/09/14/google-china-prototype-links-searches-to-phone-numbers/ For more on how decentralization and blockchain technology can help Alex Gladstein of the Human Rights Foundation on Unconfirmed: http://unconfirmed.libsyn.com/alex-gladstein-of-the-human-rights-foundation-on-the-first-crypto-war-ep021 A previous interview with Amber Baldet on Unconfirmed: http://unconfirmed.libsyn.com/sxsw-episode-amber-baldet-blockchain-program-lead-at-jpmorgan-on-the-potential-clash-between-blockchains-and-the-right-to-be-forgotten A previous interview with Andy Bromberg on Unconfirmed: http://unconfirmed.libsyn.com/coinlists-andy-bromberg-on-the-one-big-regulatory-issue-facing-crypto-ep030

Part 1 of a meandering conversation between Ahmed and Megha Rajagopalan, BuzzFeed News' China bureau chief and Asia correspondent, about surveillance and censorship in China - the high-tech police state they've built, WeChat and other tech companies, Chinese memes, the effect it's having on other south Asian countries, as well as comparisons and contrasts to Arab states. You can find Megha on Twitter @Meghara: https://twitter.com/meghara And you should also check out her reporting on the issues mentioned at Buzzfeed: https://www.buzzfeed.com/meghara Listen to her Oslo Freedom Forum talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V03v0jc88Qo AP News article mentioned on Uighur fighting in Syria: https://apnews.com/79d6a427b26f4eeab226571956dd256e BBC on facial recognition https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-china-42248056/in-your-face-china-s-all-seeing-state Economist profile: https://www.economist.com/briefing/2018/05/31/china-has-turned-xinjiang-into-a-police-state-like-no-other

President Trump celebrated the release of three hostages held in North Korea, Buzzfeed World News Correspondent, Megha Rajagopalan is based in Beijing, China and joined us to analyze what this means for the future of North Korea and the significance of the summit sent for June 12 in Singapore. We also spoke to USA Tech Reporter Marc Saltzman about Google's new digital assistant and played a fun game of Human or Robot - try and see if you can get it right yourself. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

China’s mass internment of Muslims in its Xinjiang region is one of the world's most under-covered stories The country has detained one million people ( https://qz.com/1599393/how-researchers-estimate-1-million-uyghurs-are-detained-in-xinjiang/ ) there, putting them through a “re-education” program meant to erase their language and culture ( https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/18/asia/xinjiang-new-york-times-china-xi-intl-hnk/index.html ) , sometimes through forced labor ( http://nytimes.com/2020/07/23/fashion/uighur-forced-labor-cotton-fashion.html ) and sterilization ( https://apnews.com/269b3de1af34e17c1941a514f78d764c ). Though comprehensive, on-the-ground reporting from Xinjiang is sparse, BuzzFeed News reporter Megha Rajagopalan has been on the story from the beginning. She joins the podcast to discuss her reports from Xinjiang itself, and how she worked with BuzzFeed contributors to monitor the internment camps using satellite imagery, finding that they are expanding ( https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/china-new-internment-camps-xinjiang-uighurs-muslims ). Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/big-technology-podcast/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands