Active Incident
Confirmed: sustained censorship in Iran (2026-06)
Iran · June 2, 2026 · Ongoing
OONI detected 3 days of elevated network interference averaging 83.3% anomaly rate.
Evidence
83%
Anomaly Rate
3
Measurements
72%
Confidence
What This Means
83% of 3 network tests from Iran failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 80+ percentage point difference strongly indicates intentional blocking.
How We Detected This
Data Sourceooni
ML ModelGradientBoosting v3.3 (LOCO median F1 0.87, honest across 127 countries)
Confidence Score72% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeJune 2, 2026
Corroborating Evidence (65)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
OONIOpen Observatory of Network Interference65 records
blocking
"OONI signal: 39/41 measurements anomalous (95.1%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.95
Jun 4, 2026
View source →blocking
"OONI whatsapp: 40/42 measurements anomalous (95.2%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.95
Jun 4, 2026
View source →blocking
"OONI telegram: 39/41 measurements anomalous (95.1%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.95
Jun 4, 2026
View source →blocking
"OONI signal: 43/44 measurements anomalous (97.7%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.98
Jun 4, 2026
View source →blocking
"OONI whatsapp: 43/45 measurements anomalous (95.6%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.96
Jun 4, 2026
View source →+ 60 more OONI records
Cite This Incident
Voidly Research. (2026). Confirmed: sustained censorship in Iran (2026-06) [IR-2026-0253]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/IR-2026-0253