Active Incident
Confirmed: election shutdown
Uganda · January 13, 2021 · 28 days
OONI detected censorship pattern in Uganda. Election shutdown. Anomaly rate: 13.7%
Evidence
16%
Anomaly Rate
6,050
Measurements
95%
Confidence
What This Means
16% of tests showed anomalies, above the typical 1-3% baseline. This suggests potential network interference.
How We Detected This
Data Sourceooni
ML ModelGradientBoosting v3.3 (LOCO median F1 0.87, honest across 127 countries)
Confidence Score95% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeJanuary 13, 2021
Corroborating Evidence (7)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
OONIOpen Observatory of Network Interference7 records
block
"Election shutdown"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.13
Feb 10, 2021
View source →block
"Election shutdown"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.16
Feb 3, 2021
View source →interference
"Web connectivity anomalies detected. 131 measurements with 16.0% anomaly rate."— OONI report
Signal value: 0.16
Feb 3, 2021
View source →block
"Election shutdown"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.14
Jan 23, 2021
View source →interference
"Web connectivity anomalies detected. 767 measurements with 13.7% anomaly rate."— OONI report
Signal value: 0.14
Jan 23, 2021
View source →+ 2 more OONI records
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. (2021). Confirmed: election shutdown [UG-2021-0001]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/UG-2021-0001
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