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Domestic Discourse Tightening Index
Dataset ddti · Assessed 2026-10-08T12:47:59Z
Ranks topics receiving censor attention in China Digital Times' curated deletion and directive feeds; it measures attention allocation, not a population deletion rate.
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The reading timestamp records the instrument's evidence clock. The economic reference period or event date is defined inside the source record. A recent collection does not turn an old observation into a current one. Counts describe this dataset's coverage, not all activity in China.
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Palimpsest. Domestic Discourse Tightening Index. Reading: 2026-10-08T10:01:54.005539Z. https://www.palimpsest.info/datasets/ddti/
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