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@lifesitetelegram

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8,502subscribers

-295 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026

Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 3,162–10,000.

Register entry

Telegram ID-1001187812373
TypeChannel
Username@lifesitetelegram
Created9 January 2021 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel)
First recorded6 August 2026
Last confirmed live15 November 2026
Measurements held28
Confirmed unchanged1 time, most recently 15 November 2026
On Telegramt.me/lifesitetelegram

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 63% 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 the other topics.

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 in near-verbatim form on 1 other registered channel. This entry also forms a group of 2 channels linked by matching posts. 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 (4 of the pairs behind the counts below)
Posted firstThenOverlapGap
@lifesitetelegram/33643 · this entry5 Aug 2026, 14:27 UTC@lifesitenewscatholic/171465 Aug 2026, 14:27 UTC1.00under a minute
@lifesitetelegram/33646 · this entry5 Aug 2026, 16:17 UTC@lifesitenewscatholic/171485 Aug 2026, 16:18 UTC1.00under a minute
@lifesitetelegram/33648 · this entry5 Aug 2026, 17:08 UTC@lifesitenewscatholic/171505 Aug 2026, 17:08 UTC1.00under a minute
@lifesitenewscatholic/171515 Aug 2026, 18:02 UTC@lifesitetelegram/33649 · this entry5 Aug 2026, 18:03 UTC1.002 minutes
Channels this entry shares post bodies with, where at least one matching post pair has no forward credit between the two channels, or to a common source, recorded in our data
ChannelMatching postsText overlapTypical gapPublished first
@lifesitenewscatholic8 (8/8 hand-verifiable sample passed)1.00under a minutethis entry (6–2)

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. 1 of the 2 matches recorded here fall after that date and carried no header when we read them. The rest predate reliable capture and are not evidence either way.

“Published first” means first in this corpus. We hold 397 comparable posts for this entry, running 5 August 2026 to 15 November 2026. 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).

Of the group of 2 channels, the one whose matching posts we hold earliest is @lifesitetelegram — 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 15 November 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.

Channels linked by matching posts

This channel is in a group of 2 registered channels linked by matching posts. Links are found by comparing text fingerprints across every channel on the register.

Which channel, if either, published first is deliberately not shown in this list. “First” could only mean first in our own crawl, which depends on how deep we happened to reach into each channel’s history, not on when the content was actually first posted. Our one hand-check read 45 of the highest-confidence flagged pairs against the live Telegram pages. In 18 of them the live page showed a “Forwarded from” credit that our database had no record of, so reading that pair as an unattributed copy was wrong; the check did not measure who published first. This list is ordered by subscriber count, the same as every other listing on this site, never by which channel we think came first. Near-verbatim 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

8,5028,7978,649.56 August 2026 — 8,797 subscribers6 August 2026 — 8,797 subscribers7 August 2026 — 8,794 subscribers10 August 2026 — 8,784 subscribers13 August 2026 — 8,775 subscribers16 August 2026 — 8,760 subscribers19 August 2026 — 8,749 subscribers23 August 2026 — 8,736 subscribers26 August 2026 — 8,717 subscribers29 August 2026 — 8,704 subscribers1 September 2026 — 8,693 subscribers5 September 2026 — 8,684 subscribers10 September 2026 — 8,663 subscribers14 September 2026 — 8,655 subscribers18 September 2026 — 8,637 subscribers28 September 2026 — 8,592 subscribers5 October 2026 — 8,566 subscribers12 October 2026 — 8,554 subscribers15 October 2026 — 8,556 subscribers18 October 2026 — 8,546 subscribers21 October 2026 — 8,552 subscribers24 October 2026 — 8,545 subscribers27 October 2026 — 8,541 subscribers30 October 2026 — 8,534 subscribers3 November 2026 — 8,529 subscribers6 November 2026 — 8,521 subscribers9 November 2026 — 8,517 subscribers15 November 2026 — 8,502 subscribers6 August 202615 November 2026
28 measurements spanning 101 days, net -295. 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 8,458–8,841 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded, most recent 20 of 28
Measured (UTC)SubscribersChange
15 Nov 2026, 06:208,502-15
9 Nov 2026, 18:218,517-4
6 Nov 2026, 07:268,521-8
3 Nov 2026, 07:518,529-5
30 Oct 2026, 23:068,534-7
27 Oct 2026, 15:478,541-4
24 Oct 2026, 09:458,545-7
21 Oct 2026, 11:168,552+6
18 Oct 2026, 07:068,546-10
15 Oct 2026, 04:118,556+2
12 Oct 2026, 00:168,554-12
5 Oct 2026, 18:188,566-26
28 Sept 2026, 04:228,592-45
18 Sept 2026, 21:168,637-18
14 Sept 2026, 02:188,655-8
10 Sept 2026, 14:568,663-21
5 Sept 2026, 16:158,684-9
1 Sept 2026, 07:158,693-11
29 Aug 2026, 04:268,704-13
26 Aug 2026, 03:548,717first reading

Engagement

439 posts held, back to 5 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 52 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.

ERR · 30 days
4.58%
avg views ÷ 8,502 subscribers
Avg views / post
390
198 posts measured
Reaction rate
4.77%
reactions ÷ views · ER floor
Posts in window
198
of 439 held

ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.

ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views — note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate. It is computed over the 197 of 198 measured posts that carry a reaction reading, and over those same posts' views.

What these figures were computed from
WindowRolling 30 days · latest post in window 15 November 2026
Posts held439 (5 August 2026 – 15 November 2026)
Views total77,130
Reactions total3,662
Forwards / commentsnot exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken15 Nov 2026, 01:57 UTC

Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.

Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.

Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.

What this channel posts

Video runtime
5m 47s
Average length
29s

Measured directly from 12 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.

Reaction mix

7,270 reactions across 415 posts, in 24 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 21.5% of them.

Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
ReactionCountShareShare, drawn
💯1,56421.5%
🙏99813.7%
👎80911.1%
❤78910.9%
👍6769.30%
👏4235.82%
❤‍🔥3975.46%
🤡3745.14%
🔥2954.06%
😢1732.38%
😭1582.17%
💔1301.79%
😱1151.58%
🤯1091.50%
😨761.05%
🤔630.867%
👀510.702%
🫡310.426%
🤣240.33%
🤨60.083%
4 further kinds90.124%

No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.

Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.

Coverage. Reactions were read on 434 of the 439 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 7,513 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.

Measured over the 439 most recent posts we hold, published 5 August 2026 to 15 November 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.

Recent posts

Telegram’s own ‘edited’ marker: 7 of 198 posts held from the last 30 days (3.54%) carried it when this register last read them. The marker says a post was changed after publishing, not what it said before — this register holds the earlier wording only where an edit fell between two of its own reads (see the edit ledger and how it is measured).

15 Nov 2026, 01:34 UTC40 views3 reactionsread 15 November 2026
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NEW: Fr. Chris Alar calls out pro-abortion, pro-LGBT James Talarico’s attempt to use the Bible to justify abortion and "gay marriage." “This is satanic, this is terrible.” https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/satanic-fr-chris-alar-slams-pro-abortion-pro-lgbt-james-talarico/?utm_source=SOCIAL

👏3

14 Nov 2026, 23:03 UTC132 views13 reactionsread 15 November 2026
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Cardinal Sarah: “The Church exists for God and for Him alone.”

🙏13

14 Nov 2026, 20:04 UTC284 views18 reactionsread 15 November 2026
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Islamist militants slaughter thousands of Christians across Africa. Nigerian Catholics endure years of brutal persecution with church burnings and mass killings. https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/62-dead-thousands-displaced-after-raid-in-northeastern-nigeria/?utm_source=SOCIAL

😱11💔4🙏3

14 Nov 2026, 18:34 UTC289 views18 reactionsread 15 November 2026
Video

PURE EVIL: Abortion is murder at any stage, but several states allow killing a baby who could fully function outside of the womb up to the day of birth. How can we look at these beautiful precious souls and think they are only clumps of cells? This is not a clump of cells! It is a beautiful human being, with a heart, a soul, created by our Creator with purpose and a plan. “Woe unto them that call evil good, and g…

💯18

14 Nov 2026, 17:01 UTC299 views20 reactionsread 15 November 2026
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Cardinal Zen: “There’s no way to bargain with the Communists, you get nothing.”

👍11💯9

14 Nov 2026, 14:04 UTC355 views22 reactionsread 15 November 2026
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Jim Caviezel calls out Pope Leo and church leaders for watering down the Gospel because they are afraid. The Passion of the Christ actor declared "real men must fight for the real faith" in this time of war. https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/jim-caviezel-calls-out-leo-xiv-real-men-must-fight-for-the-real-faith/?utm_source=SOCIAL

👍12💯7❤‍🔥3

14 Nov 2026, 03:32 UTC412 views17 reactionsread 15 November 2026
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Cardinal Ranjith: “The Western Church has succumbed to the temptation of despair and lack of faith, abandoning its own spiritual and liturgical heritage in the belief that it was enough simply to go with the flow.” https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/sex-abuse-victims-demand-reparations-from-pope-leo-during-peru-visit/?utm_source=SOCIAL

🙏10😢7

14 Nov 2026, 03:03 UTC383 views5 reactionsread 15 November 2026

If your “marriage” needs censorship and lawsuits to be accepted, maybe it’s not marriage.

🤔4💯1

14 Nov 2026, 02:32 UTC402 views18 reactionsread 15 November 2026
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Pope Leo openly rejects the reign of Christ the King over states and nations. His encyclical affirms society has autonomy from religion and the state full autonomy from the Catholic Church. https://www.lifesitenews.com/analysis/leo-xiv-openly-rejects-the-reign-of-christ-the-king-over-states-and-nations/?utm_source=SOCIAL

👎15🤡3

14 Nov 2026, 01:31 UTC395 views18 reactionsread 15 November 2026
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Archbishop Broglio: "Many young priests are very happy to celebrate the Latin Mass." https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/young-people-want-the-latin-mass-banner-displayed-as-pope-leos-motorcade-passes/?utm_source=SOCIAL

❤18

14 Nov 2026, 00:03 UTC389 views6 reactionsread 15 November 2026
Photo

NEW: Pope Leo calls Peru his “homeland,” despite being the first pope born in the United States. “For years, I shared the lives of its people, listened to their concerns, and learned from their faith.” https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/leo-xiv-calls-peru-not-the-us-his-homeland/?utm_source=SOCIAL

🤡4👍1🤔1

13 Nov 2026, 23:04 UTC411 views21 reactionsread 15 November 2026
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Fr. Chad Ripperger: "It does not matter who becomes president, nothing is going to substantially change until human beings start to become holy." https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/worst-gop-election-since-1974-what-you-need-to-know/?utm_source=SOCIAL

💯20👎1

Showing the 12 most recent of 439 posts we hold for @lifesitetelegram. 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.

Forward network

Republishes

Channels on the register whose posts this channel has forwarded.

Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.

Mentions

Named by 2 registered channels — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.

A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.

Cross-platform identity — Wikidata

A Wikidata item names this Telegram handle as belonging to the entity it describes. This is Wikidata’s claim, not a verification made by this register — nobody here confirmed that the account is genuinely operated by the entity named. Wikidata content is CC0; every fact below is dated to when it was read from Wikidata, not to when the association was first made there.

Q62713193 on Wikidata, read 15 November 2026
LabelLifeSiteNews
DescriptionCatholic website
X / Twitter@lifesite
Official sitehttps://www.lifesitenews.com/

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 15 November 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.

“LifeSiteNews” (@lifesitetelegram), 8,502 subscribers as measured 15 November 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/lifesitetelegram.

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.