Active Incident
Confirmed: censorship detected in Russia
Russia · June 21, 2026 · 23 hours
Evidence
91%
Anomaly Rate
16
Measurements
86%
Confidence
What This Means
91% of 16 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 v3.3 (LOCO median F1 0.87, honest across 127 countries)
Confidence Score86% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeJune 21, 2026
Corroborating Evidence (16)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
OONIOpen Observatory of Network Interference16 records
blocking
"OONI signal: 513/628 measurements anomalous (81.7%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.82
Jun 21, 2026
View source →blocking
"OONI whatsapp: 187/250 measurements anomalous (74.8%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.75
Jun 21, 2026
View source →blocking
"OONI telegram: 207/248 measurements anomalous (83.5%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.83
Jun 21, 2026
View source →tor-blocking
"OONI tor: 216/244 measurements anomalous (88.5%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.89
Jun 21, 2026
View source →blocking
"OONI signal: 667/781 measurements anomalous (85.4%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.85
Jun 21, 2026
View source →+ 11 more OONI records
Affected Services (4)
SignalTelegramTorWhatsApp
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 Russia [RU-2026-2948]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/RU-2026-2948
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