Active Incident
Confirmed: censorship detected in Ethiopia
Ethiopia · August 28, 2026 · Ongoing
Evidence
86%
Anomaly Rate
2
Measurements
84%
Confidence
What This Means
86% of 2 network tests from Ethiopia failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 83+ percentage point difference strongly indicates intentional blocking.
How We Detected This
Data Sourceooni
ML ModelGradientBoosting v3.3 (LOCO mean F1 0.71, 0.63 on the countries with n≥30)
Confidence Score84% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeAugust 28, 2026
Corroborating Evidence (2)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
OONIOpen Observatory of Network Interference2 records
header-manipulation
"OONI http_header_field_manipulation: 6/11 measurements anomalous (54.5%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.55
Aug 28, 2026
View source →header-manipulation
"OONI http_header_field_manipulation: 6/7 measurements anomalous (85.7%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.86
Aug 28, 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.
- Independent corroboration — this rests on a single source; treat it as a single-source signal, not a multi-source confirmation.
Cite This Incident
Voidly Research. (2026). Confirmed: censorship detected in Ethiopia [ET-2026-0734]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/ET-2026-0734
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