Active Incident
Confirmed: censorship detected in Tanzania
Tanzania · August 1, 2026 · 23 hours
Evidence
88%
Anomaly Rate
6
Measurements
85%
Confidence
What This Means
88% of 6 network tests from Tanzania failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 85+ percentage point difference strongly indicates intentional blocking.
How We Detected This
Data Sourceooni
ML ModelGradientBoosting v3.3 (LOCO mean F1 0.711, honest across 131 countries)
Confidence Score85% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeAugust 1, 2026
Corroborating Evidence (6)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
OONIOpen Observatory of Network Interference6 records
blocking
"OONI signal: 3/4 measurements anomalous (75.0%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.75
Aug 1, 2026
View source →blocking
"OONI telegram: 3/4 measurements anomalous (75.0%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.75
Aug 1, 2026
View source →blocking
"OONI signal: 6/8 measurements anomalous (75.0%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.75
Aug 1, 2026
View source →blocking
"OONI telegram: 7/8 measurements anomalous (87.5%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.88
Aug 1, 2026
View source →blocking
"OONI signal: 5/6 measurements anomalous (83.3%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.83
Aug 1, 2026
View source →+ 1 more OONI records
Affected Services (2)
SignalTelegram
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.
- 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 Tanzania [TZ-2026-0090]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/TZ-2026-0090
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