{
  "id": "palimpsest-news:app-storefront",
  "slug": "app-storefront-panel",
  "url": "https://palimpsest.info/news/app-storefront-panel/",
  "signal_id": "app-storefront",
  "headline": "60% of the 10-app panel is unavailable in China's storefront",
  "dek": "The fixed panel compares China and US storefront results in the same round, with transient lookup failures separated.",
  "section": "erasure",
  "order": 5,
  "type": "measurement",
  "priority": "high",
  "status": "live",
  "published_at": "2026-08-24T02:13:36Z",
  "modified_at": "2026-08-24T02:13:36Z",
  "claim_fingerprint": "sha256:9f931cb4bc4e94265c2edaf659cc8bf95fba045fafb1bf0ecf77a55d256fd1a3",
  "metric": {
    "label": "delisting rate",
    "value": 0.6,
    "unit": "ratio",
    "denominator": {
      "label": "apps tracked",
      "value": 10
    }
  },
  "claims": [
    {
      "type": "finding",
      "statement": "The current panel finds 60% of 10 tracked apps unavailable in the China storefront."
    }
  ],
  "evidence": {
    "url": "https://palimpsest.info/readings/app-storefront-latest.json",
    "input": {
      "filename": "app-storefront-latest.json",
      "sha256": "901254f8220d2c9ddea70d229be60dffb3bd3cab5bbbb3518119f918120e7ba0",
      "bytes": 3519
    },
    "source_timestamp": "2026-08-24T02:13:36Z"
  },
  "method": {
    "summary": "See the complete embedded upstream payload and its raw feed",
    "version": 1
  },
  "limitations": [
    "A fixed app panel is transparent but not representative of the entire App Store catalogue."
  ],
  "related_signal_ids": [
    "apple-censorship",
    "erasure-observatory"
  ]
}