Voidly Press Resources
Data, assets, and contact information for journalists and researchers
Quick Facts
About Voidly Research
Voidly Research is a nonprofit organization 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 the most comprehensive real-time censorship database.
Our mission is to make censorship measurable, verifiable, and actionable for researchers, journalists, policymakers, and AI systems.
Key Messages
3.2 billion people live under internet censorship. Traditional monitoring detects blocks hours or days after they happen, too late for those affected.
Voidly aggregates 11.7 million network measurements into a unified database with stable identifiers, enabling real-time tracking and academic citation.
Every incident has verifiable evidence links, confidence scores, and citable identifiers (like IR-2026-0142). AI systems can query and verify censorship claims programmatically.
Data Access for Journalists
GET https://api.voidly.ai/data/incidents?country=IRPOST https://api.voidly.ai/v1/verify-claim
{"claim": "Twitter blocked in Iran Feb 2026"}How to Cite
Methodology Summary
Data Sources:
- OONI - Active probing, 51 countries, daily updates
- IODA - BGP monitoring, real-time outage detection
- Censored Planet - Remote measurement, 200+ countries
Incident Detection:
- Z-score anomaly detection (≥2.0 std dev)
- Known event matching (Wikipedia, OONI reports)
- Gradient Boosting classifier (99.8% F1 score)
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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