Summary Shein’s biggest controversies cluster into five buckets, labor and forced-labor concerns, product safety and chemicals, dark patterns and pressure selling, greenwashing and misleading marketing, and IP copying lawsuits. Below is a fact-based timeline of the major flashpoints, what regulators, journalists, and watchdogs have alleged or
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