At least the picture was taken IN CHINA this time. Not like when they "found" a letter from a Uyghur being held captive hidden in a a Nike shoe, and the shoes were made in Vietnam. Or like when they said they had a picture of Uyghur force labour and it was a picture of a factory in Brazil, complete with a Portuguese sign in the corner. And let's not forget the infamous CIA operative tied to Guantanamo Bay who did an AMA on Reddit posing as a Uyghur defector, and of course Reddit lapped it up!
Yeah, the majority of people went along for quite a while.
Mind you, it's even worse now. We know from tools like removeddit that /r/worldnews now has a habit of removing any comments calling out the Western political narrative. Personal conspiracy theory: I suspect because they got some financial "incentives" from Reddit corporate, hell, maybe even some US three-letter agency. Is it that hard to imagine when we have documented cases of it happening in the past?