#newsdeserts
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #newsdeserts from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-08-01 23:10 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-08-01 23:10 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-08-01 23:10 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 20 public posts (spanning ~32996 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 05:00
Languages: English (18) · Portuguese (1) · German (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.8
Top of the latest posts
MegaLoL: “Regardless of whether the Nota News sites were intended as a public-facing news source, the plagiarism Poynter found was far more extensive than previously reported. Reporting from at least 53 journalists across 29 outlets appeare
"Utilizing predictive modeling created by the school’s Spiegel Research Center, the Medill team found 250 counties at high risk of becoming #newsdeserts over the next decade". https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/news/2025/news-deserts-hit-n
“Facing deep financial troubles, News Media Corporation shut down 23 #news operations in five states. The closures are just the latest in a trend contributing to #NewsDeserts in rural America.” https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/dozens-of-ru
#newsdeserts across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #newsdeserts 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/newsdeserts