{
  "id": "palimpsest-news:apple-censorship",
  "slug": "apple-censorship-corpus",
  "url": "https://palimpsest.info/news/apple-censorship-corpus/",
  "signal_id": "apple-censorship",
  "headline": "28.13% of 110,432 tested apps are unavailable in mainland China",
  "dek": "The corpus-scale storefront comparison complements the smaller fixed panel with a much broader catalogue.",
  "section": "erasure",
  "order": 6,
  "type": "measurement",
  "priority": "high",
  "status": "live",
  "published_at": "2026-08-24T06:06:32Z",
  "modified_at": "2026-08-24T06:06:32Z",
  "claim_fingerprint": "sha256:7c2b60416e2123d5c0ea1d4b3348c1fe4400e2d6c342a08c2f50bff324f6fc90",
  "metric": {
    "label": "apps unavailable",
    "value": 28.13,
    "unit": "percent",
    "denominator": {
      "label": "apps tested",
      "value": 110432
    }
  },
  "claims": [
    {
      "type": "finding",
      "statement": "The current AppleCensorship corpus reports 28.13% unavailable among 110,432 tested apps for mainland China."
    }
  ],
  "evidence": {
    "url": "https://palimpsest.info/readings/apple-censorship-latest.json",
    "input": {
      "filename": "apple-censorship-latest.json",
      "sha256": "5967cfb9da07bcd3996168364d7e5e3f106a4611a965970535490d50942a568f",
      "bytes": 1910
    },
    "source_timestamp": "2026-08-24T06:06:32Z"
  },
  "method": {
    "summary": "See the complete embedded upstream payload and its raw feed",
    "version": 1
  },
  "limitations": [
    "Storefront unavailability can have policy, licensing, commercial or technical causes; the percentage alone does not identify cause."
  ],
  "related_signal_ids": [
    "app-storefront",
    "erasure-observatory"
  ]
}