Active Incident
Confirmed: sustained censorship in Russia (2023-12)
Russia · December 29, 2023 · Ongoing
OONI detected 3 days of elevated network interference averaging 97.2% anomaly rate.
Evidence
97%
Anomaly Rate
3
Measurements
75%
Confidence
What This Means
97% of 3 network tests from Russia failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 94+ 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 TimeDecember 29, 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
"Continued VPN/social media crackdown"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.98
Dec 31, 2023
View source →block
"Continued VPN/social media crackdown"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.98
Dec 30, 2023
View source →block
"Continued VPN/social media crackdown"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.96
Dec 29, 2023
View source →Cite This Incident
Voidly Research. (2023). Confirmed: sustained censorship in Russia (2023-12) [RU-2023-0006]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/RU-2023-0006