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Source index record · Single-source report · not independently verified by Palimpsest

Photo: Small shops, by Francisco Anzola

Feed metadata published by China Digital Times.

Published by China Digital TimesIndexed by Palimpsest · unchanged record version

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Palimpsest did not write or independently verify this publisher report. The record below adds source structure, measurement context when available, revision history and limits.

Record type

Single-source report · not independently verified by Palimpsest

This record indexes one publisher group. Palimpsest has not independently verified or refuted the publisher's claims.

What Palimpsest adds

Attribution, 1 independent source group, topic links, a revision receipt and explicit unknowns. The group count is not a truth probability.

Revision receipt

eventv-d67d8185df352423a1215056

Previous: eventv-d67d8185df352423a1215056

Immutable revision JSON

Publisher reports · attributed, not adopted

What the registered sources published

  1. China Digital Times. China Digital Times published “Photo: Small shops, by Francisco Anzola”.

Palimpsest addition

What Palimpsest adds to this source report

Collector conclusion withheld · as of

Added value: Palimpsest adds current measurement context from the named collector records below. Those measurements do not verify the publisher's article.

Verification status: Palimpsest withholds a collector-backed conclusion because one or more declared measurement surfaces are not current. Archive-news-context anomaly_state is warming_up; no anomaly score is published. 41 same-window events share a declared topic. Official-page corroboration coverage is none-reviewed. Declared receipts: wayback, ddti, public-deletion-ledgers. Joined peers: China Digital Times, 2026-10-02, China Digital Times, 2026-10-02. Quality bar two-independent-source-groups is not met.

Source structure: The dossier contains one independent source group. Palimpsest treats it as an attributed report, not independent corroboration.

Why this is the bounded position

  • The dossier contains one independent source group. Palimpsest treats it as an attributed report, not independent corroboration.
  • 1 of 3 declared collector surfaces are not live, so Palimpsest does not issue a collector-backed view.

Cited newsroom brief

Lead · present

  • China Digital Times published the attributed source item at 2026-10-02T19:55:12Z.
  • Evidence strength is single-source across 1 independent source group and 1 attributed source record.
  • Palimpsest retained feed title, canonical link, publication time, and a bounded excerpt; it did not fetch the article body.
  • China Digital Times, 2026-10-02: 1 CDT items over 15 CDT item set.
  • China Digital Times, 2026-10-02: 1 CDT items over 15 CDT item set.

Timeline · abstained

  • official-first-seen is missing, so first-seen, last-alive, and hash-change points are omitted.
  • news-wire-live is missing, so that capture time is omitted.
  • A public deletion-ledger item matching this event was recorded at 2026-10-02T19:55:12Z.
  • Archive-derived host context last captured at 2026-07-22T20:47:52Z on crawl CC-MAIN-2026-30.

Official-page movement · none-reviewed

  • No live official-first-seen reading was supplied to this analysis.
  • Official-page first-seen, last-alive, and hash values are withheld.
  • Official-page corroboration coverage is none-reviewed: 0 accepted edges, 0 primary documents, 0 reviewed.

Deletion-ledger context · present

  • A cdt ledger item matches this URL. That is a peer observation, not a Palimpsest-verified deletion.
  • Palimpsest does not have its own first-seen to gone trail for this URL, so the ledger item stays a peer observation.

Pipe context · not-declared

  • This event does not declare OONI, bleedthrough, vantage, or IODA signal ids, so pipe context is withheld.

Archive-derived context · present

  • Host www.gov.cn has unique_urls=4816, mutation_rate=None, archive_gap_rate=None, anomaly_state=warming_up on crawl CC-MAIN-2026-30.
  • absence_semantics is archive-coverage-gap-not-deletion. No raw Common Crawl URL or WARC body is published.
  • The prequential-robust-mad/v1 model remains warming_up; no anomaly score is published.

Counterreadings

  • A ledger hit can reflect the ledger's own selection rules rather than a deletion of this URL.
  • A hash change or disappearance on an official page can reflect a routine update, a fetch failure, or a removal; the trail does not choose among those.
  • A current pipe or undertext value can post-date the article and cannot establish that this article was blocked.

What this brief does not know

  • Palimpsest does not know why any page, hash, or ledger item changed.
  • Palimpsest did not read the article body and does not verify the publisher's claims.
  • Person-level attribution and claims about why an actor acted are outside this brief.

Cited brief · citation coverage 1.0 · automatic publication prohibited · human review required.

Collector findings used

Current evidence · ddti

The directive index now tracks 192 censorship terms

The current deletion-directive index ranks 192 terms with documented censorship provenance.

192 countterms ranked

Current aggregate collector reading. It is relevant context only; the wire declares no timed, claim-specific verification join.

Method and receipt

See the complete embedded upstream payload and its raw feed

Observed
08 Oct 2026 · 10:01 UTC
Evidence
ddti-latest.json
SHA-256
c75d0618b9fd1dfbf50d6f0be45fcd077982856637a72bc42ab4825833604f44

Coverage degraded · silence-index

Silence index: no current finding

No current finding is published for Silence index because the source status is degraded.

Collector status is degraded; retained values are not treated as a current finding.

Method and receipt

pre-emptive silence: topics loud abroad and gone at home, the censorship that leaves no deletion to count. Guard rails are the processor's, not this runner's: no China nexus -> out_of_scope; missing global or domestic input -> abstain; and with no coupling baseline wired (v1), a topic without gazetteer corroboration abstains rather than scores — a topic China never covered being quiet at home is disinterest, not suppression. An abstention is published as an abstention, never as a zero. DDTI terms carry china_nexus by provenance: they are drawn from the censor's own deletion stream, so this runner sets the nexus flag at source and the processor's per-term gazetteer gate is deliberately bypassed for them (it still guards any non-DDTI deployment). A blind round (nothing scored) records null blackout counts in both the latest reading and the history, never zeros

Observed
08 Oct 2026 · 11:00 UTC
Evidence
silence-index-latest.json
SHA-256
46a2c696c07bf7d35f6062449d219905a9e3ef34821152d18d7d846084c4e003

Current evidence · wayback

Archive witnesses reconstruct 3 deletions across 21 watched URLs

Wayback evidence reconstructs 3 deletions among 21 watched URLs in the current reading.

3 countreconstructed deletions · across 21 URLs watched

Current aggregate collector reading. It is relevant context only; the wire declares no timed, claim-specific verification join.

Method and receipt

See the complete embedded upstream payload and its raw feed

Observed
08 Oct 2026 · 10:08 UTC
Evidence
wayback-latest.json
SHA-256
c9fc8f79e6bf5320746522b77aef53e4d1a1704086b41f313a0bd798d89568ea

Attributed peer context

  • greatfire. GreatFire's 90-day verdict for this host is not enough data as of an unknown date. GreatFire Analyzer, CC BY 4.0. Palimpsest is not the origin of these measurements.
  • ooni. OONI has 43 China measurements on this host (anomaly rate 100.0%) as of 2026-10-08. OONI Probe / OONI data. Palimpsest is not the origin of these measurements.
  • cdt. CDT published a related title "Photo: Small shops, by Francisco Anzola" (https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2026/10/photo-small-shops-by-francisco-anzola/). Palimpsest did not write that piece. China Digital Times. Palimpsest did not write that piece.
  • cdt. CDT published a related title "CDT’s “404 Deleted Content Archive” Summary for August 2026" (https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2026/10/cdts-404-deleted-content-archive-summary-for-august-2026/). Palimpsest did not write that piece. China Digital Times. Palimpsest did not write that piece.
  • cdt. CDT published a related title "Translation: Censored Commentary on Beijing’s Drone Storage Ban" (https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2026/09/translation-censored-commentary-on-beijings-drone-storage-ban/). Palimpsest did not write that piece. China Digital Times. Palimpsest did not write that piece.
  • weiboscope. Historical Weiboscope volume is not on this node (Fu, Chan, Chau 2013; doi:10.25442/hku.16674565). Weiboscope / HKU Journalism and Media Studies Centre. Historical 2012 volume is not stored on this node.

Named-key interconnection

  • China Digital Times, 2026-10-02. exact host chinadigitaltimes.net; url_path /2026/10/photo-small-shops-by-francisco-anzola; term photo: small shops, by francisco anzola host, url_path, term
  • China Digital Times, 2026-10-02. exact host chinadigitaltimes.net host

topic-surface-only · 2 joined · warehouse groups do not count as wire corroboration.

Analysis analysisv-e7a337d638211502994cfe6f · structured assessment · immutable revision

Evidence braid

Order, provenance and declared surfaces

  1. documentation · china-digital-times

    China Digital Times

    Photo: Small shops, by Francisco Anzola

    · feed sha 50f53d6324c4

  2. Declared topic surfaces · not a causal match

    scan:ddti · scan:silence-index · scan:wayback

    A timed measurement join has not been asserted by this dossier.

The braid reports source ordering. A declared topic surface is not a timed statistical match and cannot establish cause, coordination, censorship, or economic impact.

Evidence matrix

Inspect every receipt

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Evidence receipts for this dossier
RoleSource / groupFeed recordPublished / hash
documentation China Digital Timeschina-digital-times Photo: Small shops, by Francisco AnzolaNo feed excerpt supplied. feed sha 50f53d6324c4

Measurement surfaces

Where Palimpsest can test the topic

The directive index now tracks 192 censorship termsCurrent instrument · topical pointer onlySilence index: no current findingCurrent instrument · topical pointer onlyArchive witnesses reconstruct 3 deletions across 21 watched URLsCurrent instrument · topical pointer only

Epistemic boundary

What this dossier cannot establish

  • Palimpsest retained only feed title, canonical link, time, and a bounded plain-text excerpt; it did not fetch the article body.
  • The evidence-strength label describes source structure, not truth, intent, impact, or causation.
  • Declared instrument links are topical pointers until a separate scan or economic observation is joined by time and method.
  • Title-similarity clustering can miss differently worded or cross-language accounts and can join closely worded updates.
  • This dossier currently contains one independent evidence group and remains explicitly attributed.