China News Feed with Deletion Watch

Who said what, and what went missing.

See how the same China story is told by state media, overseas independents and dissident sources, side by side. Every item carries its source type, and stories are grouped across types so you can compare coverage at a glance. How many new items a run returns varies by source and by how long it has been since your last run. Some sources update hourly, and their rows are marked fetch: "hourly".

On top sits a deletion watch on five mainland hot lists: Weibo, Baidu, Zhihu, Toutiao and Bilibili. When a topic drops off while it's still hot, we recheck it and flag it Censored only with hard evidence, or Likely censored on medium evidence. Topics that come back are marked Returned. Every flag shows its evidence, and weaker signals are filtered out before they reach your dataset.

What you get

• Every item is labeled by source type: State media, Party-gov, Commercial platform, Overseas independent, Dissident, Censorship tracker. Aggregator sites are credited to the original outlet (see below).
• Cross-source story clusters. The same story from state media, overseas outlets and censorship trackers shares one topic_id, so you can compare the framing side by side.
• Deletion flags, with evidence. Every flag has a status, timestamps and the evidence behind it, and flagged stories are listed first.
• Hot-list rows. Public, logged-out lists from Weibo hot search, Baidu hot search, Zhihu hot list, Toutiao hot board and Bilibili hot search (大陆平台热榜), with rank, heat and time for each topic. Kuaishou and Douyin hot lists are included as hot-list rows only (see below).
• Deletion watch runs on our side. We snapshot the hot lists ourselves and compare each snapshot with the ones before it. Your schedule decides how often new rows reach you; it doesn't change which topics get flagged. If our shared snapshots are unavailable or out of date, a run includes no deletion flags rather than guessing.
• Two feeds: a Chinese feed (original headline and a short excerpt) and an English feed (machine-translated headline, excerpt of up to 30 words, generated summary). Flagged stories lead both feeds. English is translated within a daily budget, newest rows first, so not every row gets it. Rows that aren't reached ship in Chinese only, marked translation_status: translation_pending.
• The official line. For each flagged story you get a state-media item from the same cluster, or "No official comment found" (未找到官方回应).
• Where it survived. Other platforms, overseas outlets and trackers where the story is still visible.

Statuses: Censored, Likely censored, Returned

We ship two censorship statuses plus Returned. Weaker signals are filtered out and never reach your dataset.

Status (status)	Label (label / label_zh)	What it takes
censored (tier high)	Censored / 【已被审查】	The topic left the list while hot and is still gone after 1 hour, and there is hard evidence: the topic URL returns 404/410, Weibo shows the 「根据相关法律法规」 notice, or China Digital Times / CDT 404 Archive has an entry dated after we first saw the topic. Marked provisional: true until the 24-hour recheck.
likely_censored (tier medium)	Likely censored / 【疑似被审查】	An abrupt drop from the top of the list while hot (high rank or rising, heat not decaying), still gone at the 10-minute recheck, with medium-strength evidence but no hard evidence yet.
returned	Returned	The topic was flagged and then came back. We keep it visible rather than quietly deleting the flag.

Zhihu: Zhihu hot list is checked hourly, so not every removal is caught. A question is flagged only if it drops out of the top 15 and Zhihu itself reports it as removed, which can take up to a day after it leaves the list. Zhihu flags are always Censored (there is no Likely censored for Zhihu), and they show two times: dropped from list at (censored_at.first_missing) and still missing as of (confirmed_gone_at). Proof that Zhihu reports the question removed is in evidence. The flag says the question is gone; it doesn't say when it was removed.

Kuaishou and Douyin: Kuaishou hot board is checked hourly, as hot-list rows only, with no deletion watch. Douyin is hot-list rows only, with no deletion watch, credited "Douyin (via anyknew.com)".

Third-party copies of hot lists: Some hot-list rows come from a public third-party copy of the list and are credited, for example (via anyknew.com). We never use those rows on their own to mark anything Censored or Likely censored.

Never shipped: unconfirmed drops, posts the author deleted (已被作者删除; that's not censorship), and anything from a list that failed to load. A failed fetch is never treated as a deletion. When we miss snapshots, for example during maintenance, items that drop off in that window aren't marked Censored or Likely censored.

Each flag carries:

• censored_at (last_seen and first_missing, in UTC and ET)
• time_on_list (a lower bound)
• peak_rank, peak_heat
• platforms_affected, survived_on
• evidence[] (each entry has check, ts, signal, result, url). A page check (url_check) records whether the topic's link still loads or is gone (404/410). A login wall or a blocked check is recorded as inconclusive, never as live.
• official_line
• why

why is filled only from China Digital Times or named overseas reporting, with links. We never guess. If no source exists, it stays empty ("Unknown / 原因不明").

Source-type labels

Label (source_type)	What it covers
State media	Mainland China news outlets: central party/state media and market-oriented or business outlets. Privately owned outlets such as Caixin, Sohu, Tencent News, Jiemian and Yicai are shown as "State media (privately owned)" with an ownership note. label_note adds a neutral descriptor such as "market-oriented", "business" or "local". label_display always names the outlet, so you never see a bare "State media".
Party-gov	Government bodies, e.g. MFA regular press conferences (one item per Q&A)
Commercial platform	The Weibo, Baidu, Zhihu, Toutiao and Bilibili hot lists; Kuaishou and Douyin hot-list rows (no deletion watch); other platform content
Overseas independent	Overseas Chinese-language outlets, e.g. BBC Chinese, VOA Chinese (Mandarin), DW Chinese, Lianhe Zaobao; Hong Kong/Taiwan/Singapore/Malaysia outlets, with the region in label_note
Dissident	Outlets openly opposed to the CCP; affiliations are stated in the source row. Includes outlets of the NFSC network (labeled network: "NFSC"), which aren't part of deletion watch
Censorship tracker	China Digital Times, CDT 404 Archive, China Media Project and other trackers

Source-type labels describe the outlet, not the story: they say what kind of institution published it, never whether an item is true.

Aggregator sites (Backchina, Creaders, Baidu News) are used only to find stories. Each item is credited to its original outlet and takes that outlet's label, or it's dropped if the outlet isn't named. No row ships as "Aggregator".

Deleted WeChat articles: the feed includes deleted WeChat articles collected by China Digital Times, credited to CDT. We don't collect WeChat ourselves.

Google News route: Ming Pao, HKET and Sin Chew stories come through Google News' public search feed. They're labelled with the outlet's own name and type, marked via: "Google News", and their links open through Google News before reaching the outlet's article. They count as their outlet for story spread, and deletion watch doesn't cover them.

Collector sources: Beijing News, Shenzhen News, Xinhua Daily, China Press and Sydney Today come through our collector. If one of these fails, it keeps showing its last good rows until each is 48 hours old. If our collector is down for more than 3 hours, all five show 0 rows and are marked stale, and old rows aren't brought back when it restarts. Other sources show 0 rows while they're failing.

YouTube and Telegram: up to 34 YouTube and 10 Telegram channels, one currently paused. YouTube's own channel feeds are sometimes unavailable, so a run can include rows from fewer channels. They're labeled by outlet type, aren't part of deletion watch, and names of private individuals are replaced with [redacted-name] automatically.

G·HOT reports: on G·HOT daily and weekly rows, published is when the report was released, not the day it covers. The covered day is in the title and the URL (/archive/reports/

Every run writes SOURCE_STATUS_JSON, listing every source, including ones that couldn't be read on that run and why. ok: false means the latest fetch failed, not that no rows shipped.

Coverage

About 155 maintained news sources (the status file lists every source we try, including blocked ones), plus the Weibo, Baidu, Zhihu, Toutiao and Bilibili hot lists (deletion watch) and Kuaishou and Douyin hot-list rows (no deletion watch).

Sources in the count (working sources only; final list from the same health check):

• State media: 36Kr; Cailian Press 财联社; Caixin Global (English); Caixin 财新网; Huxiu 虎嗅; IT Home IT之家; Jiemian 界面新闻; Jiqizhixin 机器之心; LatePost 晚点; National Business Daily 每经网; NetEase News 网易新闻; Phoenix 凤凰网; Securities Times 证券时报; Sina News 新浪新闻; Sohu News 搜狐新闻; Tencent News 腾讯网; Yicai 第一财经; Qiushi 求是网; RTHK 香港電台; Study Times 学习时报; Xuexi Qiangguo 学习强国; Beijing Daily 京报网; CCTV English; CCTV News 央视新闻; CCTV programmes incl. Xinwen Lianbo 新闻联播; CGTN; China Daily (English); China Daily Chinese 中国日报网; China News Service English (ecns.cn); China News Service 中国新闻网; China Radio International 国际在线; China Youth Net 中国青年网; China.org.cn 中国网; Economic Daily / China Economic Net 中国经济网; Global Times Chinese / Huanqiu 环球网; Global Times (English); Guancha 观察者网; Guangming Daily 光明网; Kankan News 看看新闻; Oeeee / Southern Metropolis Daily 奥一网 南都; People's Daily English; People's Daily 人民网; People's Daily print edition 人民日报; PLA Daily / China Military Online 中国军网; Shanghai Observer 上观新闻; Shine / Shanghai Daily; Sixth Tone; Southern Net 南方网; Southern Weekly 南方周末; Ta Kung Pao 大公報; The Paper 澎湃新闻; Wen Wei Po 文匯報; Workers' Daily 中工网; Xinhua English; Xinhua 新华网; China National Radio 央广网; China Youth Daily 中国青年报; CQNews 华龙网; Dazhong Daily 大众日报; Economic Observer 经济观察报; Guangzhou Daily 广州日报; Legal Daily 法治日报; Red Star News 红星新闻; Reference News 参考消息; TechNode 动点科技; Yangcheng Evening News 羊城晚报; Yangzi Evening News 扬子晚报; Beijing News 新京报; People's Daily app 人民日报客户端; People's Daily+ 人民网+; Shenzhen News Net 深圳新闻网; Xinhua Daily 新华日报
• Party-gov: CAC 网信办; CCDI 中央纪委国家监委; gov.cn English; gov.cn 中国政府网; MFA press conference 外交部例行记者会; MFA Spokesperson's Remarks (English); Ministry of National Defense 国防部; Party History & Literature Institute 中央党史和文献研究院; Taiwan Affairs Office 国台办
• Overseas independent: BBC News Chinese; Central News Agency Taiwan 中央社; China Times 中時新聞網; ChinaFile; DW Chinese 德国之声; FT Chinese FT中文网; HK01 香港01; Hong Kong Free Press; Initium Media 端传媒; Lianhe Zaobao 联合早报; Liberty Times 自由時報; Matters 馬特市; Ming Pao (via Google News); NYT Chinese 纽约时报中文网; on.cc 東網; Pekingnology; RFA Mandarin 自由亚洲电台; RFI Chinese 法广; SCMP; Sing Tao Headline 星島頭條; Sinocism; Storm Media 風傳媒; The News Lens 關鍵評論網; The Reporter 報導者; The Witness 法庭線; United Daily News 聯合新聞網; Up Media 上報; VOA Chinese 美国之音; 8world News 8视界; ACB News 澳华财经在线; Asian Pacific Post; Business Next 數位時代; Chinese Commercial News 菲律賓商報; European Times 欧洲时报; Focus Taiwan; Guang Ming Daily 光明日报 (MY); HKET (via Google News); International Daily News 国际日报 (Indonesia); Jing Daily; Nanyang Siang Pau 南洋商报; NZ Chinese Herald 新西兰中文先驱报; Oriental Daily News Malaysia 东方日报; Sampan 舢舨; Seattle Chinese Times 西城時報; Sin Chew (via Google News); Sing Tao Daily Canada; Sing Tao Daily Europe; Sing Tao Daily USA; Taipei Times; The Standard (HK); The Star (Malaysia); World Journal 世界日報; China Press 中国报 (MY); Sydney Today 今日悉尼
• Dissident: Aboluowang 阿波罗新闻网; Bannedbook 禁闻网; ChinaAid 对华援助协会; Epoch Times Chinese 大纪元; Kanzhongguo / Secret China 看中国; Mingjing News 明鏡網; NTD 新唐人電視台; Sound of Hope 希望之声; NFSC network outlets (GETTR accounts, G·HOT reports, Telegram)
• Censorship tracker: CDT 404 Archive 404文库; China Digital Space 中国数字空间; China Digital Times 中国数字时代; China Digital Times English; China Media Project; Citizen Lab; FreeWeChat 自由微信; GreatFire.org; OONI; Weibo trending history (GitHub, bhwa233); Weibo trending history (GitHub, justjavac)
• Commercial platform: Eastmoney 东方财富; plus the hot lists above
• Channels: up to 34 YouTube and 10 Telegram channels, one currently paused (not in the news-source count)

Not included in v1: Sogou WeChat search, Tianshannet, Canyu, The Chinese Weekly, What's on Weibo, Chongqing Daily, Xiaohongshu, and sites that block logged-out readers.

Output

• Dataset:
  • One row per feed item: record_type: "item", with a compact censorship block if the item was flagged.
  • One row per flag: record_type: "censorship_flag".
  • Views: Flagged stories (Censored and Likely censored), English feed, Chinese feed.
• Key-value store: FEED_ZH_JSON, FEED_EN_JSON, TOPICS_JSON (clusters), CENSORED_JSON, SOURCE_STATUS_JSON, TOP15_EN_MD, TOP15_EN_HTML.

Output fields: feed items

Field	What it is	When present
record_type	item for news and hot-list rows	always
id	Stable item id	always
topic_id	Story cluster this item belongs to	when clustered
kind	Row kind (news article, hot-list entry, Q&A)	always
source_id, source_name	Which source the row came from	always
source_type	Outlet type	always
outlet, outlet_homepage	Outlet name and homepage	always
label_en, label_zh, label_display, display_en, display_zh, label_note	Outlet label text. Describes the outlet, not whether a story is true	always
ownership_checked	Whether the outlet's ownership label was checked	always
themes	Theme tags for the item	when tagged
url	Link to the original page	always
published	Publish time (UTC)	always
published_estimated, published_source	published is estimated, and where the date came from: url, page, first_seen, url_path (a date in the link's path), html_attr (a date in a page attribute) or cover (older name for a cover-image path). An estimated date is not the row's age; the row ages from when we first saw it.	when the page has no publish time
fetched_at	When we fetched it	always
via	Third-party copy or feed the row came through, e.g. Google News, anyknew.com	those rows only
headline_en	English headline (an empty string until the row is translated)	when translated
headline_original, original_language	Original headline and its language	always
title_zh, excerpt_zh	Chinese title and excerpt	Chinese-language rows
excerpt_en, summary_en	English excerpt and summary	when available
quotes	Quotes kept verbatim, with attribution	when the item has quotes
translation, translation_status, translation_model, translation_label, translation_check, translation_failed	Machine translation and its quality check	translation on every row (none for English-language sources); the rest on Chinese-language rows
censorship	Short deletion status block or null	hot-list rows
rank, heat, peak_rank	Current rank, heat and best rank on the hot list	hot-list rows
first_seen, snapshots_seen	First time on the list and how many snapshots saw it	hot-list rows
speaker, format	Speaker and format for press-conference Q&A	Q&A rows
network, repost	NFSC network label and GETTR repost marker	NFSC rows only
wechat_url	Original WeChat article link, as listed by China Digital Times. We don't open this link, and the article may no longer be available.	CDT 404 rows about WeChat articles
wechat_account	WeChat account name, as given in China Digital Times' 404 archive title. Empty when CDT doesn't name one.	CDT 404 rows about WeChat articles
fetch	How this row is refreshed: scheduled (the default, on each run) or hourly	always
week_end	The week-end date G·HOT's weekly report gives, as the report writes it. It is not when the row stops showing or billing.	G·HOT weekly rows only

Output fields: deletion flags (record_type: "censorship_flag", also in CENSORED_JSON)

Field	What it is
item_id, list, title, title_en, url	The hot-list entry that went missing, and which list
tier, label, label_zh, status, provisional	Censored, Likely censored or Returned, and whether the call is still provisional
censored_at	Last time seen and first time missing (UTC and ET). On Zhihu flags this is dropped from list at
confirmed_gone_at	Still missing as of: roughly the latest snapshot where the item was still absent. Empty for returned items. It is not a confirmation; proof, when we have it, is in evidence and status
first_seen_at, last_seen_at, first_seen_et, last_seen_et	Time window on the list
time_on_list	Minutes and snapshots on the list (a lower bound)
evidence_status	Only on flags whose evidence check is still running. not_checked_yet means the check hasn't reached that flag yet, not "no deletion found". Finished flags don't carry it.
peak_rank, peak_heat, rank_trail	Best rank, heat, and the rank path ending where it left the list
evidence, url_check, cdt_hits	The evidence for the status: page check (url_check is inconclusive when a login wall or block stops the check) and China Digital Times matches, including when the entry was first missing and when we last checked its page (UTC).
evidence text "still on	The same story was still showing on another public list when it went missing from this one
impact.co_dropped_terms ("Dropped at the same time")	Other entries that went missing from the same list in the same snapshot
returned_at, returned_rank	When and where it came back, if it did
platforms_affected, survived_on	Other lists it vanished from or stayed on
impact, why, official_line, official_line_zh	Short context notes

TOPICS_JSON (sorted by rank): rank, topic_id, label_en, label_zh, summary_en, n_items, items, members, source_types, groups_covering, distinct_sources, buckets, censored, censorship_status, censorship_flags, watch_terms.

Sample censorship flag (EXAMPLE DATA: invented values for illustration, not a real story):

{
  "record_type": "censorship_flag",
  "status": "censored",
  "tier": "high",
  "label": "Censored",
  "label_zh": "【已被审查】",
  "provisional": true,
  "list": "weibo",
  "title": "【示例】某地突发事件",
  "title_en": "[Example] Sudden incident in a city",
  "censored_at": {
    "last_seen": "2026-10-12T06:40:05Z", "last_seen_et": "2026-10-12 02:40 ET",
    "first_missing": "2026-10-12T06:45:11Z", "first_missing_et": "2026-10-12 02:45 ET"
  },
  "confirmed_gone_at": "2026-10-12T07:46:30Z",
  "time_on_list": {"minutes": 95, "snapshots": 19, "note": "lower bound: counted from our first snapshot"},
  "peak_rank": 3,
  "peak_heat": 1250000,
  "evidence": [
    {"check": "rank_history", "ts": "2026-10-12T06:45:11Z", "signal": "abrupt_drop_while_hot",
     "result": "left weibo at #4 (peak #3), heat near peak", "url": null},
    {"check": "url_recheck_1h", "ts": "2026-10-12T07:46:30Z", "signal": "censor_notice",
     "result": "根据相关法律法规", "url": "<topic search URL>"}
  ],
  "platforms_affected": ["weibo"],
  "survived_on": [{"where": "baidu", "type": "platform", "title": "【示例】…", "url": null}],
  "why": null,
  "official_line": "No official comment found",
  "official_line_zh": "未找到官方回应"
}

Sample English feed item (EXAMPLE DATA):

{
  "record_type": "item",
  "topic_id": "c0012",
  "kind": "news",
  "source_type": "Overseas independent",
  "source_name": "BBC News Chinese",
  "outlet": "BBC News Chinese",
  "label_display": "BBC News Chinese (Overseas independent)",
  "headline_en": "[Example] Headline in English",
  "headline_original": "【示例】中文标题",
  "excerpt_en": "(up to 30 words, machine-translated)",
  "summary_en": "(generated by the Actor, not source text)",
  "quotes": [{"text": "(verbatim, original language)", "speaker": "…", "role": "…", "outlet": "…"}],
  "translation_status": "ok",
  "url": "<original article URL>",
  "published": "2026-10-12T02:20:26Z",
  "censorship": null
}

English feed: how it's written

• Headlines and excerpts are machine-translated, with automatic checks on numbers and dates. Names and slang can still come out wrong, so check against headline_original. Not every row gets English: rows outside the daily translation budget are marked translation_status: translation_pending and keep only the Chinese. translation_status is ok when translated, translation_pending when not yet translated (translation_label: "Translation pending; original shown"), and failed when the generated English summary came out garbled and was withheld (translation_failed: true; the English headline is still shown). Rows from English-language sources have translation: "none" and no translation_status.
• Quotes stay verbatim in the original language, attributed to speaker, role and outlet. They ship only after a fact check. Everything else is rephrased, and no facts are added.
• Summaries are generated by the Actor and never copy article text.

Use cases

• Censorship research: a timestamped record of topics that disappeared from hot lists, with the URL rechecks and tracker cross-references behind each flag.
• China desks and newsrooms: a lead sheet of hot-list topics that disappeared overnight, each with its evidence, the state-media line and where the story survived.
• Analysts and risk teams: compare state vs overseas framing of the same story in one cluster.
• AI/LLM builders: a structured, labeled Chinese/English feed with source types, for RAG grounding, evals, or a censorship-aware news tool via the Apify API or MCP.

Input (main fields)

Field	What it does
hotLists	Lists to include: weibo, baidu, zhihu, toutiao, bilibili. Controls hot-list and deletion rows on its own, whatever sourceTypes is set to. douyin (on by default) adds Douyin hot-list rows, credited "Douyin (via anyknew.com)", with no deletion watch; they count as Commercial platform under sourceTypes
newsSources	"all" (default) or a list of source ids
sourceTypes	News items only (hot lists are set by hotLists). Only news credited to these types: State media, Party-gov, Commercial platform, Overseas independent, Dissident, Censorship tracker. Default: all. Rows you filter out aren't charged. Narrower selections also run faster: we fetch only those sources, then match them against a shared record we rebuild regularly from every source, so deletion evidence, statuses, story clusters and overseas pickup are the same whatever you filter here
maxItems	Caps how many new items one run returns and bills; anything over the cap carries to your next run. Leave it empty for no limit
snapshotCount	Use 1 with a schedule; higher values poll repeatedly in one run
snapshotIntervalMinutes	Minutes between in-run snapshots
highRank	Rank threshold for a "dropped while hot" candidate (default 15)
recheckUrls	Recheck vanished topics' URLs (default on)
useApifyProxy	Off by default

Other settings

Most buyers can leave these at their defaults.

• Emit only new rows (emitOnlyNew, default on): each run returns only rows that are new since your last run, so you only pay for new rows. A deletion flag comes back again when its status changes, for example from Likely censored to Censored, or to Returned. Turn it off to get a full snapshot. Every row in a full snapshot is billed, including ones you got before.
• Max items per news source (maxItemsPerSource, default 30, 1 to 100): the most news items kept from any one source in a run. Lower it for a lighter, more balanced feed. It applies to NFSC network rows (GETTR and the mirrors) too. A few app-only sources, such as the People's Daily app, aren't capped by it.
• Include hot-list items up to rank (maxHotRank, default 50, 5 to 50): hot-list rows ranked below this are left out. Set it to 10 or 20 if you only want the top of each list.

Pricing

Pay per event:

• $8.00 per 1,000 new items (billed per event). No start fee. Apify platform usage is included, so there's no separate compute charge.

Example run: with maxItems at 200, a run costs at most 200 items at $8 per 1,000, which is $1.60. How many items a run returns varies by source and by how long it has been since your last run. Narrower sourceTypes or hotLists settings return fewer items, and maxItems caps a run's bill.

You only pay for new rows. A row is billed once. A story cluster is billed when it first appears. A hot-list topic is billed once per platform, even if its rank changes. A run with nothing new returns no billable items. Now and then a source lists the same article again, for example when a search page re-indexes it. When that happens, the item can bill one more time, at most once every 30 days.

Limits: what this Actor does not do

• Platforms curate their hot lists, so a topic can leave for commercial or editorial reasons. That's why only hard evidence earns Censored, every flag shows its evidence, and returned stays visible.
• Logged-out URL rechecks are often inconclusive. Weibo search needs a login, so many disappearances can't be confirmed and stay at Likely censored.
• Zhihu is checked hourly, so not every removal is caught, and a Zhihu flag can arrive up to a day after the question leaves the list.
• Kuaishou and Douyin are hot-list rows only, with no deletion watch.
• Some outlets block logged-out requests and are not bypassed: Wenxuecity, US China Press and others. They appear in SOURCE_STATUS_JSON with the reason.
• Ming Pao, HKET and Sin Chew arrive through Google News, so we may miss stories Google News doesn't surface, and deletion watch doesn't cover them.
• Most JavaScript-only sites aren't covered yet. A few, such as the People's Daily app, are fetched for you ahead of time and may be missing from a run when shared data is unavailable.
• No Xiaohongshu in v1, and no WeChat collection of our own. The only WeChat-related rows are deleted WeChat articles collected by China Digital Times. There's also no mainland-IP view: we see what a logged-out visitor outside the mainland sees.
• We don't promise unbroken coverage. When we miss snapshots, for example during maintenance, items that drop off in that window aren't marked Censored or Likely censored. Sources can fail on a given run; SOURCE_STATUS_JSON shows which.
• time_on_list is a lower bound: it starts at our first snapshot.
• Story matching leans toward caution. We only group items when the evidence that they cover the same event is strong, so very short hot-list titles, and English-language coverage of a Chinese-language story, are sometimes left ungrouped. survived_on can therefore miss some pickups, especially by English-language outlets.
• If part of our shared data can't be reached, the run's status message reads: "Some sources, story matching and English translations are temporarily unavailable in this run."

Ethics and responsible use

• Public, logged-out pages only. No accounts, no login-wall bypass, no paywall bypass.
• No personal data: no usernames, user IDs, profile URLs, comments or media files. Cross-checks store aggregate counts only. Names of private individuals in channel posts are replaced with [redacted-name].
• Short excerpts with links back to the source; request rates are kept low.
• A "Censored" label is a documented, evidence-based judgment about a hot-list topic, not a claim about any person. Read the evidence before you publish.

FAQ

• Why "Likely censored" rather than "Censored"? Because we don't have a 404, a 根据相关法律法规 notice or a dated CDT entry yet. If hard evidence arrives and the topic is still gone at 1 hour, it moves up to Censored.
• Can a Censored item change? Yes. It stays provisional until the 24-hour recheck. If the topic comes back, its status becomes returned.
• How often should I run it? As often as you want new rows. Deletion watch runs on our side, so your schedule decides when new items and flags reach you, not which topics get flagged. A run takes a few minutes.
• Why does a source show ok: false but still have rows? ok: false means its latest fetch failed. Collector sources keep showing their last good rows until each is 48 hours old.