#mccarthyism

Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #mccarthyism from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.

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Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
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Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
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Recent posts
Mastodon
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Recent pace
Mastodon · last 40
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Reddit posts / month
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Open-web mentions
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Day-by-day usage

measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-27 06:31 UTC
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0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.

Related hashtags

measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-27 06:31 UTC

Live pulse

measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-27 06:31 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~4535 hours).

Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 15:00

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Languages: English (39) · Galician (1)

Avg boosts / post: 1.9

Top of the latest posts

  • (The tide of public opinion turned against McCarthy when he was challenged by the U.S. Army’s chief counsel Joseph Welch with the famous question “Have you no sense of decency, sir?”—a rocket at the time that by today’s standards of politic

    Nonilex@[email protected]♥ 11↻ 32026-03-07 15:26 UTCView post →
  • #LauraLoomer, gadfly & #Trump favorite, told…Michael Scherer in an interview…that “we need to make McCarthy great again.” And she told The New Yorker that McCarthy is “one of the most underrated & underappreciated political figures in histo

    Nonilex@[email protected]♥ 8↻ 82026-03-07 15:29 UTCView post →
  • For decades, Sen Joseph R. McCarthy’s name has been used as shorthand for the opposite of the aspirational ideal of civilized #US #politics. In the way that “Kleenex” has become interchangeable with “tissue”, #McCarthyism, for many, is an e

    Nonilex@[email protected]♥ 8↻ 12026-03-07 15:20 UTCView post →

What “mccarthyism” means

Wikipedia

McCarthyism is a political practice defined by the accusation and investigation of left-wing individuals of communist and Soviet influence on American institutions and of Soviet espionage in the United States during the late 1940s through the 1950s, heavily associated with the McCarthy era. After the mid-1950s, U.S. senator Joseph McCarthy, who had spearheaded the campaign, gradually lost his public popularity after several of his accusations were found to be false. The U.S. Supreme Court under

“McCarthyism” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →

#mccarthyism across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #mccarthyism straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.

Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/mccarthyism