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Reporting network vantages combine to a 28.6% interference index

The fusion names excluded and divergent inputs instead of silently averaging away disagreement.

By Palimpsest ObservatoryAutomated evidence brief

28.6%fused network index

What the record says

Finding. The current coverage-weighted fusion of reporting vantages is 28.6%.

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

How it was measured

coverage-weighted mean of vantages normalized to 0-100 (Censored Planet remote interference rate, OONI in-country anomaly index); agreement = 1 − |OONI − CP| / 60pp; CONTESTED when the two differ > 20pp; net4people blocking-event share adjusts confidence only.

What this cannot establish

  • The fused index summarizes differently sampled methods and is not a direct percentage of China's internet traffic.

Palimpsest addition

Instrument brief

live-reading · Current evidence

Palimpsest's view: vantage-fusion is live. The current number is 28.6% over declared denominator not reported. This is the instrument reading, not a national censorship rate.

Key number

  • 28.6% fused network index · declared denominator not reported

Current number and denominator

  • The current fused network index is 28.6% over declared denominator not reported.
  • The current coverage-weighted fusion of reporting vantages is 28.6%.

Same-edition board context

  • Same-edition elevated layers: none declared. Other live lead or high signal ids: event-flags, ddti, net4people, undertext, ooni-gfw, in-path-interference, censored-planet, inside-view, ioda-outages, erasure-observatory, wayback, app-storefront, apple-censorship, cny-fix-gap, data-darkness, generative-firewall.
  • No editorial_priority or MAD score is treated as a finding on this reading.

What this reading does not show

  • The fused index summarizes differently sampled methods and is not a direct percentage of China's internet traffic.
  • The brief does not assign motive, identify a person, merge unlike denominators, or treat a missing reading as a zero.
  • coverage-weighted mean of vantages normalized to 0-100 (Censored Planet remote interference rate, OONI in-country anomaly index); agreement = 1 − |OONI − CP| / 60pp; CONTESTED when the two differ > 20pp; net4people blocking-event share adjusts confidence only.

Elevated peers this edition

event-flags (command), ddti (attention), net4people (attention), undertext (attention), ooni-gfw (network), in-path-interference (network), censored-planet (network), inside-view (network), ioda-outages (network), erasure-observatory (erasure), wayback (erasure), app-storefront (erasure), apple-censorship (erasure), cny-fix-gap (economy), data-darkness (economy), generative-firewall (models)

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

  • The fused index summarizes differently sampled methods and is not a direct percentage of China's internet traffic.
  • The companion copies newsroom templates only; it adds no interview, article body, or generative prose.

Analysis instrumentv-df8d6a0fd5b3abd9c9af7663 · structured assessment · reading companion

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