Active Incident
Confirmed: sustained censorship in Myanmar (2026-05)
Myanmar · May 2, 2026 · Ongoing
OONI detected 3 days of elevated network interference averaging 100.0% anomaly rate.
Evidence
100%
Anomaly Rate
3
Measurements
77%
Confidence
What This Means
100% of 3 network tests from Myanmar 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
ML ModelGradientBoosting v3.3 (LOCO median F1 0.87, honest across 127 countries)
Confidence Score77% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeMay 2, 2026
Corroborating Evidence (387)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
OONIOpen Observatory of Network Interference387 records
blocking
"OONI signal: 10/14 measurements anomalous (71.4%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.71
May 27, 2026
View source →blocking
"OONI whatsapp: 10/14 measurements anomalous (71.4%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.71
May 27, 2026
View source →blocking
"OONI facebook_messenger: 10/14 measurements anomalous (71.4%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.71
May 27, 2026
View source →tor-blocking
"OONI tor: 9/14 measurements anomalous (64.3%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.64
May 27, 2026
View source →blocking
"OONI signal: 14/21 measurements anomalous (66.7%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.67
May 27, 2026
View source →+ 382 more OONI records
Cite This Incident
Voidly Research. (2026). Confirmed: sustained censorship in Myanmar (2026-05) [MM-2026-0192]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/MM-2026-0192