#whataboutery
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #whataboutery 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 2026-10-19 14:39 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 2026-10-19 14:39 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #whataboutery.
Live pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-19 14:39 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 10 public posts (spanning ~42638 hours).
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Languages: English (10)
Avg boosts / post: 1
Top of the latest posts
The #meme I didn't know I needed #whataboutism #whataboutery
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What “whataboutery” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediawhataboutery/wɒtəˈbaʊtəɹi/
- nounProtesting at hypocrisy; responding to criticism by accusing one's opponent of similar or worse faults.
"Whataboutism" or "whataboutery" refers to the propaganda strategy of responding to an accusation with a counter-accusation instead of offering an explanation or defense against the original accusation. It is an informal fallacy that the accused party uses to avoid accountability—whether attempting to distract by shifting the conversation's focus away from their behaviour or attempting to justify themselves by pointing to the similar behaviour of their opponent or another party who is not the cu
“Whataboutism” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#whataboutery across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #whataboutery 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/whataboutery