A new BBC Africa Eye/BBC Eye investigation reveals children in Africa are being exploited to make personalised videos, including racist content, for sale on Chinese websites and social media. By combining open-source analysis, traditional reporting and undercover journalism, BBC Africa Eye/BBC Eye tracked down and confronted one prolific Chinese video producer who has used very young children from rural Malawi to make and sell thousands of videos. A group of young African children are being instructed, by a voice off-camera, to chant phrases in Chinese. These questions sent BBC Africa Eye/BBC Eye reporter Runako Celina on a journey into a Chinese video-making industry that exploits vulnerable children across the continent. In China it has become popular to send personalised greeting videos via social media and messaging apps using African children.

Source: Standard Digital June 14, 2022 07:51 UTC