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Ben Carson

@SecretaryCarson

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1,845subscribers

-13 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026

Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 1,000–3,162.

Register entry

Telegram ID-1001422955261
TypeChannel
Username@SecretaryCarson
Created14 January 2021measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel)
First recorded6 August 2026
Last confirmed live12 August 2026
Measurements held5
Confirmed unchanged1 time, most recently 12 August 2026
On Telegramt.me/SecretaryCarson

Topic

Politics & activism — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-UD-Q6_K_XL, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 11 August 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 61% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.

Observations

These are measurements, not verdicts. Each one below states something we counted, alongside the evidence it was counted from, so you can check it rather than take it. None of them is graded: every observation this register holds is recorded at severity 0, because the precision of the detectors behind them has not been measured yet, and a rating we cannot support is worse than none. Read each as a fact about the data, not as a judgement about the channel. How we measure.

Content that also appears on other registered channels

Posts published here appear word for word on 3 other registered channels. The matching is on the text itself, not on Telegram’s forward marker, so it finds a copy whether or not it was labelled as one.

Matching posts — open both and compare (6 of the pairs behind the counts below)
Posted firstThenOverlapGap
@MicheleBachmann/101430 Apr 2022, 23:33 UTC@SecretaryCarson/1127 · this entry30 Apr 2022, 23:33 UTC1.00under a minute
@MicheleBachmann/101629 May 2022, 22:09 UTC@SecretaryCarson/1129 · this entry29 May 2022, 22:09 UTC1.00under a minute
@MicheleBachmann/101831 Jul 2022, 23:09 UTC@SecretaryCarson/1131 · this entry31 Jul 2022, 23:09 UTC1.00under a minute
@MicheleBachmann/101931 Jul 2022, 23:09 UTC@SecretaryCarson/1132 · this entry31 Jul 2022, 23:09 UTC1.00under a minute
@MicheleBachmann/102511 Oct 2022, 21:25 UTC@SecretaryCarson/1138 · this entry11 Oct 2022, 21:25 UTC1.00under a minute
@MicheleBachmann/102617 Nov 2022, 22:30 UTC@SecretaryCarson/1139 · this entry17 Nov 2022, 22:30 UTC1.00under a minute
Every channel this entry shares post bodies with
ChannelMatching postsText overlapTypical gapPublished first
@MicheleBachmann15 (8/8 hand-verifiable sample passed)1.00under a minutethis entry (150)
@realgreene15 (8/8 hand-verifiable sample passed)1.00under a minutethis entry (150)
@senatormastriano15 (8/8 hand-verifiable sample passed)1.00under a minutethis entry (150)

Text overlap is the Jaccard coefficient over the set of distinct three-word phrases in the two bodies: 1.00 is identical wording, and the threshold for counting a pair at all is 0.70. Candidates are generated by simhash LSH (4 x 16-bit bands, exact Hamming <= 3) verified against the bodies with Jaccard over the SET of distinct 3-word shingles. Published first counts which side of each matching pair carries the earlier timestamp — in this corpus, which is the limitation directly below.

What this cannot establish

MEASURED, DOMINANT ERROR SOURCE: a post ingested before 2026-08-06 may have carried a forward header that was not recorded. A 45-pair hand-check against live t.me pages found 14 (31%) where the live page shows a forward header naming the other channel and the database has none, plus 4 more (9%) naming a third party. The text match itself was wrong 0 times out of 45. Read attribution_capture.items_in_trusted_window before treating the unattributed count as a claim.

Telegram lets a channel forward a post with a header naming the source, and we only began reliably recording that header on 2026-08-06. None of the 0 matches recorded here fall after that date, so for this entry we cannot say whether any of them carried a credit. The duplication is measured; the absence of attribution is not.

“Published first” means first in this corpus. We hold 20 comparable posts for this entry, running 3 April 2022 to 30 September 2023. A channel we have read one page deep will look younger than a neighbour we have read in full, and the order would flip with no change in the underlying facts.

The detector’s own notes on this observation, as it recorded them. Names in this_style are fields of the underlying evidence record, which the plain-English paragraphs above read out for this entry.

  • Verbatim republication has three causes and the text separates only two: a clone/mirror, unattributed copy-paste, or BOTH channels copying a common third source that neither attributes. The spread filter (content held by at most 8 channels) reduces the third and does not remove it.
  • 'Earliest' means earliest IN THIS CORPUS. A channel ingested one page deep will look younger than a neighbour ingested in full; corpus_coverage above is there to be checked before the direction is believed.
  • shared_verified_est extrapolates the sampled pass rate over the full narrow match count; sampled/passed are the numbers actually measured.
  • Absence of a forward header is not proof of intent: Telegram lets a channel disable forward attribution, and a credit written in the body is not parsed as attribution here (mention_edge_either_way above is the closest available signal).

Across the whole group of 4, the earliest publisher we hold is @SecretaryCarson — which is this entry. That is a statement about our reading window, not a claim of authorship.

Recorded under the key clone_source, last confirmed 7 August 2026. An observation that a later pass no longer finds is cleared, and a cleared observation is removed from this page rather than being shown struck through — we do not keep publishing a claim we have withdrawn. Dispute an observation.

Also posting the same content

This channel’s posts match, word for word or near enough, posts on 3 other registered channels, found by comparing text fingerprints across every channel on the register. That matching has been checked by hand against the live Telegram pages and found reliable — 0 wrong of 45 pairs re-read.

Which channel, if either, published first is deliberately not shown. The same hand-check found that reading wrong 18 of 45 times — 60%, no better than a coin flip — because it depends on how deep our own crawl happened to reach into each channel’s history, not on when the content was actually first posted. This list is ordered by subscriber count, the same as every other listing on this site, never by which channel we think came first. Word-for-word matching has several ordinary explanations besides copying — a channel mirroring itself, an unattributed repost, or two channels independently repeating the same wire story — and this measurement cannot tell those apart. How this is measured.

Growth

1,8451,8581,851.56 August 2026 — 1,858 subscribers6 August 2026 — 1,858 subscribers6 August 2026 — 1,857 subscribers9 August 2026 — 1,855 subscribers12 August 2026 — 1,845 subscribers6 August 202612 August 2026
5 measurements spanning 6 days, net -13. Dots are measurements; the straight line between them is drawn to join them, not to claim we know the path taken in between — snapshots are recorded only when a count changes, so gaps mean “no change observed”, never “interpolated”. The vertical axis spans 1,843–1,860 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded
Measured (UTC)SubscribersChange
12 Aug 2026, 15:381,845-10
9 Aug 2026, 20:121,855-2
6 Aug 2026, 22:211,857-1
6 Aug 2026, 11:311,858no change
6 Aug 2026, 09:421,858first reading

Engagement

20 posts held, back to 3 April 2022the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 2 pagesof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.

Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 30 September 2023. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.

What this channel posts

Video runtime
3m 13s
Average length
32s

Measured directly from 6 videos with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no mark.

Recent posts

30 Sept 2023, 21:48 UTC≈4,430 viewsread 7 August 2026
Video

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28 Feb 2023, 21:26 UTC≈5,550 viewsread 7 August 2026
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18 Jan 2023, 21:47 UTC≈4,680 viewsread 7 August 2026
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18 Jan 2023, 18:13 UTC≈3,640 viewsread 7 August 2026
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15 Jan 2023, 00:38 UTC≈1,590 viewsread 7 August 2026
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13 Jan 2023, 22:21 UTC≈1,630 viewsread 7 August 2026
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Trump is aware of what is coming, that’s why he is promoting this book. HOME DOCTOR book will save your life because he knows what is coming. Covid-19 was just the test, they isolated us from everyone and even from the doctors! You don’t know what is coming, prepare yourself. Learn the best advice to save yourself from the best-selling book HOME DOCTOR. The stocks are very low after Trump published it, we are sorry

17 Nov 2022, 22:30 UTC≈3,460 viewsread 7 August 2026
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11 Oct 2022, 21:25 UTC≈4,820 viewsread 7 August 2026
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6 Oct 2022, 21:12 UTC≈3,690 viewsread 7 August 2026
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2 Oct 2022, 01:06 UTC≈3,530 viewsread 7 August 2026

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2 Oct 2022, 01:06 UTC≈3,500 viewsread 7 August 2026
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1 Oct 2022, 18:02 UTC880 viewsread 7 August 2026
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TRUMP PAYMENTS ANYONE? Trump is launching his own SMART card that is going to fight against the big money corporations that have been stealing OUR money for decades. The product is going to be linked with crypto payments and it's going to be totally transparent & decentralized. Early rumors: 1. Monthly stimulus checks coming straight to your card. 2. Cash-back on all patriot purchases. 3. Accepted in most major

Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @SecretaryCarson. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.

Cite this entry

A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 12 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.

“Ben Carson” (@SecretaryCarson), 1,845 subscribers as measured 12 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/SecretaryCarson.

Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.