Active Incident
Confirmed: censorship detected in Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan · August 18, 2026 · Ongoing
Evidence
100%
Anomaly Rate
5
Measurements
90%
Confidence
What This Means
100% of 5 network tests from Azerbaijan failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 97+ percentage point difference strongly indicates intentional blocking.
How We Detected This
Data Sourceooni + censoredplanet
ML ModelGradientBoosting v3.3 (LOCO median F1 0.87, honest across 127 countries)
Confidence Score90% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeAugust 18, 2026
Corroborating Evidence (6)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
OONIOpen Observatory of Network Interference5 records
blocking
"OONI facebook_messenger: 1/1 measurements anomalous (100.0%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 1.00
Aug 18, 2026
View source →tor-blocking
"OONI tor: 1/1 measurements anomalous (100.0%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 1.00
Aug 18, 2026
View source →tor-blocking
"OONI tor: 6/6 measurements anomalous (100.0%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 1.00
Aug 18, 2026
View source →tor-blocking
"OONI tor: 1/1 measurements anomalous (100.0%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 1.00
Aug 18, 2026
View source →tor-blocking
"OONI tor: 1/1 measurements anomalous (100.0%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 1.00
Aug 18, 2026
View source →Censored PlanetUniversity of Michigan research1 record
http-blocking-timeout
"HTTPS blocking (timeout): 4/4 probes blocked (100.0%) for protonvpn.com"— Censored Planet report
Signal value: 1.00
Aug 18, 2026
View source →What we cannot say
- Who caused it — measurement data alone does not attribute this to any government, ISP, or other actor.
- Intent — anomalous or unreachable measurements indicate interference, not a stated motive or a deliberate-vs-incidental determination.
- Which networks — no specific ASN/ISP is identified for this incident.
- The mechanism — we cannot state whether this was DNS tampering, TLS/SNI reset, an HTTP blockpage, throttling, or an infrastructure outage.
- A confirmed duration — we report the observation window, not a verified start/stop of any block.
- Sub-national scope — measurement is aggregated at the country level; we cannot localize to a province, city, or network segment.
Cite This Incident
Voidly Research. (2026). Confirmed: censorship detected in Azerbaijan [AZ-2026-1575]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/AZ-2026-1575
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