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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 2016-07 → 2026-10

01 · Overview

By the numbers

10,036
tracked incidents
686,424
evidence permalinks
214
countries covered
40+
probe nodes (15 internal + 25 community)

Voidly Atlas aggregates 10,036 citable censorship incidents from 686,424 evidence rows. The corpus draws on 3.5B+ raw measurements from OONI, IODA, and CensoredPlanet, plus a probe fleet run by Voidly and community partners, whose live size and country coverage are published at api.voidly.ai/v1/probe/network.

02 · Top countries

Where the most incidents happened

  1. 1.VEVenezuela308
  2. 2.RURussia307
  3. 3.IRIran297
  4. 4.EGEgypt249
  5. 5.PKPakistan243
  6. 6.AZAzerbaijan241
  7. 7.MMMyanmar240
  8. 8.BYBelarus170
  9. 9.AEAE169
  10. 10.BDBangladesh168
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.

Voidly
288,893
42.1% of corpus
ooni
255,356
37.2% of corpus
Voidly-Community
57,333
8.4% of corpus
censoredplanet
46,472
6.8% of corpus
ioda
38,370
5.6% 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

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

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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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