Active Incident
Confirmed: sustained censorship in Russia (2023-01)
Russia · January 1, 2023 · Ongoing
OONI detected 3 days of elevated network interference averaging 90.9% anomaly rate.
Evidence
91%
Anomaly Rate
3
Measurements
75%
Confidence
What This Means
91% of 3 network tests from Russia failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 88+ percentage point difference strongly indicates intentional blocking.
How We Detected This
Data Sourceooni
ML ModelGradientBoosting v2 (99.8% F1, internal eval)
Confidence Score75% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeJanuary 1, 2023
Corroborating Evidence (3)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
OONIOpen Observatory of Network Interference3 records
block
"Ukraine invasion - mass blocks"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.88
Jan 3, 2023
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"Ukraine invasion - mass blocks"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.93
Jan 2, 2023
View source →block
"Ukraine invasion - mass blocks"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.91
Jan 1, 2023
View source →Cite This Incident
Voidly Research. (2023). Confirmed: sustained censorship in Russia (2023-01) [RU-2023-0004]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/RU-2023-0004