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Planet Data Used in Pulitzer Prize-Winning Article Series

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Planet would like to congratulate Megha Rajagopalan, Alison Killing, and Christo Buschek of BuzzFeed News for winning a Pulitzer Prize for their series documenting China’s mass internment of Muslims in Xinjiang Province. Over the course of the investigation, BuzzFeed News used Planet imagery, along with other sources of satellite data, to identify or verify the locations of 47 existing detention centers, and 268 new prison camps built since early 2018. In a particularly impressive portion of research, the reporters compared blacked out areas in Chinese mapping platforms with Planet high resolution data to uncover locations of the new prison camps. Satellite data was also critical later in the series, when documenting the forced labor of Uighur Muslims at factories within the walls of the camps.

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