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GreatFire's cache holds 22 90-day verdicts for already-held Palimpsest URLs

The GreatFire Analyzer open API is credited by name and date. Palimpsest is not the origin of these measurements and does not crawl the catalog.

By Palimpsest ObservatoryAutomated evidence brief

22 countGreatFire verdicts · across 55 URLs queried

What the record says

Observation. The current GreatFire context cache contains 22 compact 90-day verdicts.

This report is scoped to greatfire-context. It does not merge unlike instruments or infer a cause from co-movement.

How it was measured

Keyless /api/url/ and /api/verdict lookups for already-held Palimpsest URLs. Per-test history discarded. Not a 700k catalog crawl.

What this cannot establish

  • A GreatFire verdict is that project's dated measurement, not Palimpsest capture, and it does not prove Party motive.

Palimpsest addition

Instrument brief

live-reading · Current evidence

Palimpsest's view: greatfire-context is live. The current number is 22 over 55 URLs queried. This is the instrument reading, not a national censorship rate.

Key number

  • 22 GreatFire verdicts · 55 URLs queried

Current number and denominator

  • The current GreatFire verdicts is 22 over 55 URLs queried.
  • The current GreatFire context cache contains 22 compact 90-day verdicts.

Same-edition board context

  • Same-edition elevated layers: none declared. Other live lead or high signal ids: event-flags, ddti, undertext, peer-context, ooni-gfw, in-path-interference, censored-planet, inside-view, ioda-outages, vantage-fusion, erasure-observatory, wayback, app-storefront, apple-censorship, cny-fix-gap, data-darkness.
  • No editorial_priority or MAD score is treated as a finding on this reading.

What this reading does not show

  • A GreatFire verdict is that project's dated measurement, not Palimpsest capture, and it does not prove Party motive.
  • The brief does not assign motive, identify a person, merge unlike denominators, or treat a missing reading as a zero.
  • Keyless /api/url/ and /api/verdict lookups for already-held Palimpsest URLs. Per-test history discarded. Not a 700k catalog crawl.

Elevated peers this edition

event-flags (command), ddti (attention), undertext (attention), peer-context (attention), ooni-gfw (network), in-path-interference (network), censored-planet (network), inside-view (network), ioda-outages (network), vantage-fusion (network), erasure-observatory (erasure), wayback (erasure), app-storefront (erasure), apple-censorship (erasure), cny-fix-gap (economy), data-darkness (economy)

Counterreadings

  • A current or withheld instrument value is not independent corroboration of any publisher article, and it is not a cause.
  • Co-movement with another live signal on this edition is layer context, not a shared rate or a coordinated action.

Limitations

  • A GreatFire verdict is that project's dated measurement, not Palimpsest capture, and it does not prove Party motive.
  • The companion copies newsroom templates only; it adds no interview, article body, or generative prose.

Analysis instrumentv-906d8d81b8ca2ee8453df79f · structured assessment · reading companion

Read the evidence

The exact source reading is greatfire-context-latest.json. The structured version of this dispatch is published beside the article.