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About Voidly.

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Voidly is an independent company building privacy infrastructure for people and AI agents through Voidly VPN, Veil encrypted messaging, and Voidpay marketplaces. Atlas provides open internet-censorship research. Voidpay is its marketplace builder for AI-agent services. Atlas publishes censorship evidence and research; Veil and Voidly VPN provide private communication and connectivity tools.

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Voidly-original incidents, scores and annotations use CC BY 4.0. Upstream measurements retain their own terms. OONI raw data and Citizen Lab test lists use CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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Evidence draws on OONI, IODA, CensoredPlanet and Voidly probes, with test-list context from Citizen Lab. Coverage and timestamps differ. A network anomaly alone does not establish government intent; a forecast does not establish when a shutdown will occur.

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Voidly is an independent company building privacy infrastructure for people and AI agents through Voidly VPN, Veil encrypted messaging, and Voidpay marketplaces. Atlas provides open internet-censorship research. Voidpay is its marketplace builder for AI-agent services. Atlas publishes censorship evidence and research; Veil and Voidly VPN provide private communication and connectivity tools.

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Where is AI itself censored?

Voidly runs a continuously-measured public dataset of where major AI services are actually reachable — network-level, across 28 countries: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Hugging Face and more. It separates a real network block from a vendor's own geo-policy. As of the latest measurement: the major AI chatbots are unavailable across China, Iran, and Russia — and Voidly separates state network-blocking from the vendors' own geo-restrictions, a distinction most coverage misses. Hugging Face is network-blocked in Iran (breaking model and dataset downloads), while the majors are fully reachable across the US, UK, Germany and Japan. Measured, not opinion — free to cite under CC BY 4.0.

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By the numbers

38.8M
Measurements (all-time)
7,500+
Tracked incidents
130
Countries monitored
0.71 (v3.3 LOCO mean)
ML classifier F1
84
MCP tools
CC BY 4.0
License
Built on data from OONI · CensoredPlanet · IODA · Citizen Lab · Voidly probes

About Voidly Research

Voidly Research is the censorship-research work published by Voidly, tracking global internet censorship. We aggregate measurements from OONI (Open Observatory of Network Interference), IODA (Internet Outage Detection and Analysis), and Censored Planet to create censorship records linked to their measurement sources.

Our mission is to make censorship measurable, verifiable, and actionable for researchers, journalists, policymakers, and AI systems.

Key Messages

The Problem

3.2 billion people live under internet censorship. Traditional monitoring detects blocks hours or days after they happen — too late to inform reporting, policy response, or autonomous AI agents that need the data live.

Our Solution

Voidly aggregates 38.8M network measurements all-time (448K in the rolling 30-day scoring window) from the upstream corpus into a real-time database with stable identifiers (IR-2026-0142) and 0.71 (v3.3 LOCO mean) F1 ML classification — citable, machine-readable, free.

What's Different

Every incident has verifiable evidence links, confidence scores, and citable identifiers (like IR-2026-0142). AI systems can query and verify censorship claims programmatically. Voidly also measures where the AI services themselves are reachable — a live public dataset answering “is ChatGPT / Claude / Gemini blocked here?”

Data Access for Journalists

REST API
Query incidents, countries, and statistics
GET https://api.voidly.ai/data/incidents?country=IR
API Documentation →
Claim Verification API
Verify censorship claims with evidence
POST https://api.voidly.ai/verify-claim
{"claim": "Twitter blocked in Iran Feb 2026"}
Full Dataset
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HuggingFace Dataset →

How to Cite

For a specific incident:
Voidly Research. (2026). Social Media Blocking in Iran [IR-2026-0142]. https://voidly.ai/incident/IR-2026-0142
For the dataset:
Voidly Research. (2026). Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/data
BibTeX:
@misc{voidly_censorship_2026, author = {Voidly Research}, title = {Voidly Global Censorship Index}, year = {2026}, url = {https://voidly.ai/data}, note = {3,800+ incidents (470+ citable censorship)} }

Methodology Summary

Data Sources:

  • OONI - Active probing, 51 countries, daily updates
  • IODA - BGP monitoring, real-time outage detection
  • Censored Planet - Remote measurement, 130 countries

Incident Detection:

  • Z-score anomaly detection (≥2.0 std dev)
  • Known event matching (Wikipedia, OONI reports)
  • GradientBoosting v3.3 classifier (LOCO mean F1 0.71, 0.63 on the countries with n≥30)
  • Shutdown predictor shutdown_risk_v9 (forward country-ranking AUC 0.89, KeepItOn-validated)

Confidence Scoring:

  • 0.95: Matched known event + 1000+ measurements
  • 0.70-0.95: Matched event + 100-1000 measurements
  • 0.60: Unmatched but high anomaly rate
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