Forced and Child Labor Abuses Found in 75% of Lithium Battery Supply Chains, China, the worst offender
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Forced and Child Labor Abuses Found in 75% of Lithium Battery Supply Chains, China, the worst offender
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I mean fake news can pretty much claim anyone to be human right abusers, and provide next to zero evidence.
While I am still waiting for the world to boycott usa for genocide in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya; boycott Israel genocide in Gaza. I mean, we have video evidence and it’s all over mainstream media how the two country bombed innocent civilians. But we are busy boycott China based on poor evidence and rumors.
Not saying china is innocent. But the oil wars i listed are pretty much a known fact at this point.
I am saying, why the double standard? Please acknowledge the double standard. Drop the moral high ground.
The problem with articles such as this is that there’s so much FUD being spread about BEVs, that it’s like the boy that cried wolf.
“U.K. artificial intelligence risk assessment specialist, Infyos. Its (AI driven) research uses industry data compiled from nearly 20,000 data points from government datasets, NGO reports, news articles and social media sources”
The source material is absurd, and the method of research is unproven. They might as well have pulled it out of their ass.
This is definitely just complete fake news designed to shape opinions against Chinese battery suppliers and justify further tariffs. Chinese battery companies are well known for very good paying jobs and highly automated factories. The idea that there’s slaves and children across the supply chain mixing harmful chemicals in sweatshops is just an idiotic meme.
Edit: go look into their website, and the founder’s background. Pretty obvious this is a propaganda op.
>“AI driven data research tells us…”
>Its research uses industry data compiled from nearly 20,000 data points from government datasets, NGO reports, news articles and social media sources for the period covering December 2022 to June 2024.
Lmao this guy used a web scraper on social media comments and media articles
Way overhyped stat… for example, the total amount of artisanal mining in the Congo is way less than 75%, and it is more like 15-20%, and Congo isn’t the only cobalt producer. And the vast majority of problematic artisanal mining output goes into Chinese supply chains that supply batteries for tools, consumers electronics like phones, and toys.
Furthermore, they mention CATL but don’t go into the fact that most of CATL’s output is LFP and doesn’t have any cobalt. The article doesn’t discuss the amount of forced labor in lithium production, but most lithium production in EV supply chains isn’t from China, it’s from Australia, Australia, and so forth.
As for EVs in the global market available outside of China, the minerals and cell production isn’t even 75% Chinese, much the subset that are the problematic supply chains.
This 75% number is then just hyped BS.
“A data study by an U.K. artificial intelligence risk assessment specialist”
>A data study by an U.K. artificial intelligence risk assessment specialist, Infyos
Who?
>Infyos says its AI technology is developed specifically for the battery industry to automate the gathering, cleansing and classification of unstructured data to identify and assign confidence ratings to allegations of human rights abuses with accuracy and speed that previously was not possible.
Ah, so snake oil peddlers.
>Its research uses industry data compiled from nearly 20,000 data points from government datasets, NGO reports, news articles and social media sources for the period covering December 2022 to June 2024.
So they’re scraping… social media. Incredible.
>The company says its research reveals that 75% of lithium-ion battery suppliers employ supply chains identified using one or more companies facing allegations of severe human rights abuses.
And they’re not even finding human rights abuses, but rather *allegations* of human rights abuses.