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Voidly Research · Annual edition · 2026

State of Internet Censorship 2026

A snapshot of global internet censorship as measured by OONI, IODA, CensoredPlanet, and the Voidly probe network. Citable, peer- reviewable, CC BY 4.0.

By Voidly Research · Published · Data window 2016-072026-05

01 · Overview

By the numbers

2,637
citable incidents
85,370
evidence permalinks
214
countries covered
40+
probe nodes (15 internal + 25 community)

Voidly Atlas aggregates 2,637 citable censorship incidents from 85,370 evidence rows. The corpus draws on 2.2B+ raw measurements from OONI, IODA, and CensoredPlanet, plus 40+ probe nodes operated directly by Voidly and community partners.

02 · Top countries

Where the most incidents happened

  1. 1.VEVenezuela64
  2. 2.EGEgypt55
  3. 3.IRIran55
  4. 4.RURussia53
  5. 5.NGNigeria52
  6. 6.INIndia50
  7. 7.PKPakistan49
  8. 8.TTTrinidad and Tobago49
  9. 9.AZAzerbaijan46
  10. 10.BDBangladesh42
03 · Provenance

Where the evidence comes from

No single measurement network captures the full picture. Voidly aggregates four independent sources so every confirmed incident has ≥2 corroborating signals — and structurally cites the upstream so journalists can audit our chain.

ooni
46,174
54.1% of corpus
ioda
21,627
25.3% of corpus
censoredplanet
17,416
20.4% of corpus
Voidly
77
0.1% of corpus
Voidly-Community
76
0.1% of corpus
04 · Methodology + honest baselines

How accurate is our shutdown forecast?

Voidly Sentinel — the forecast model that powers /atlas/elections and per-country risk scores — publishes three honest accuracy splits so readers can choose which figure matches their risk tolerance.

SplitAUCF1Use for
Stratified (inflated)0.980.79Sanity check only
Time-based (floor)0.500.00Conservative baseline
LOCO median (honest)0.910.55Cite this

Full methodology including live calibration drift is published at /methodology#validation and live at /sentinel/calibration.

05 · How to cite this edition

Cite

Voidly Research. (2026). State of Internet Censorship 2026. Voidly Atlas Annual Edition. https://voidly.ai/atlas/state-of-censorship-2026

Numbers in this edition reflect the corpus as of the page's dateModified — they will continue to grow. For the moving live numbers see /atlas; for the freeze-frame this annual edition represents, see the BibTeX + 5 other citation formats above. License: CC BY 4.0.

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