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> But the rest of your post is correct.

Won't say that, there are quite a bit of unsubstantiated claims in that message supported only by few individuals and organizations paid by the CIA.

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There’s testimonies of actual Uighurs who have described what goes on in these camps- are they now CIA plants?

You mean like the ones made up before every major US military intervention in the last 30 years? Some examples:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony?wprov=sfti1

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2004/feb/25/iraq.iraqan...

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/21/world/middleeast/iraqi-re...

Do you have evidence of this? Both of you made bold claims that citations would help with.

All of his claim can more or less be trace backed to Adrian Zenz, who is a 'Senior Fellow of China Studies' at Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. If the name was not immediately telling, it was set up and paid for by the US government.

Not as bold as the claims of millions of Uyghurs being detained:

https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1287411708374454273

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