What the record says
Finding. The current publication-cadence darkness index is 0.212 across 7 watched official series.
This report is scoped to data-darkness. It does not merge unlike instruments or infer a cause from co-movement.
How it was measured
publication-cadence watch: each surface reports the latest release visible from this vantage, scored as days-since against its own nominal cadence (business-day basis for daily series, so weekends are not darkness; Chinese public holidays are not modelled and appear as short recurring spikes the detector's reference learns). NBS series additionally carry days_past_promise, scored against the state's own published release calendar — a promise date is sharper than a learned rhythm. darkness_index is the mean staleness ratio over surfaces that answered. A surface that could not be fetched is listed as unreachable and excluded — vantage trouble is not withholding (nra.gov.cn in particular is known to gate some foreign vantages). A high index states that official surfaces are late against their own rhythm; it does not establish intent
What this cannot establish
- Publication delay, calendar changes and collection failure can resemble withholding; per-series state is required for interpretation.
Palimpsest addition
Instrument brief
live-reading · Current evidence
Palimpsest's view: data-darkness is live. The current number is 0.212 over 7 series watched. This is the instrument reading, not a national censorship rate.
Key number
- 0.212 darkness index · 7 series watched
Current number and denominator
- The current darkness index is 0.212 over 7 series watched.
- The current publication-cadence darkness index is 0.212 across 7 watched official series.
Same-edition board context
- Same-edition elevated layers: none declared. Other live lead or high signal ids: event-flags, ddti, undertext, ooni-gfw, in-path-interference, censored-planet, inside-view, ioda-outages, vantage-fusion, erasure-observatory, wayback, app-storefront, apple-censorship, cny-fix-gap, generative-firewall.
- No editorial_priority or MAD score is treated as a finding on this reading.
What this reading does not show
- Publication delay, calendar changes and collection failure can resemble withholding; per-series state is required for interpretation.
- The brief does not assign motive, identify a person, merge unlike denominators, or treat a missing reading as a zero.
- publication-cadence watch: each surface reports the latest release visible from this vantage, scored as days-since against its own nominal cadence (business-day basis for daily series, so weekends are not darkness; Chinese public holidays are not modelled and appear as short recurring spikes the detector's reference learns). NBS series additionally carry days_past_promise, scored against the state's own published release calendar - a promise date is sharper than a learned rhythm. darkness_index is the mean staleness ratio over surfaces that answered. A surface that could not be fetched is listed as unreachable and excluded - vantage trouble is not withholding (nra.gov.cn in particular is known to gate some foreign vantages). A high index states that official surfaces are late against their own rhythm; it does not establish intent
Elevated peers this edition
event-flags (command), ddti (attention), undertext (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), 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
- Publication delay, calendar changes and collection failure can resemble withholding; per-series state is required for interpretation.
- The companion copies newsroom templates only; it adds no interview, article body, or generative prose.
Analysis instrumentv-d8800699293ee0a69f590cc4 · structured assessment · reading companion
Read the evidence
The exact source reading is data-darkness-latest.json. The structured version of this dispatch is published beside the article.