# Censorship detected in AE

**Country:** 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates (AE)
**Date:** 2026-06-22
**Type:** Censorship
**Severity:** CRITICAL
**Status:** suspected

## Summary

None

## Metrics

- Confidence: 90%
- Measurements: 8
- Anomaly Rate: 100.0%

## Evidence

- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 1/2 measurements anomalous (50.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-06-22
  - Confidence: 70%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=AE&test_name=signal&since=2026-06-22&until=2026-06-23&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 1/2 measurements anomalous (50.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-06-22
  - Confidence: 70%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=AE&test_name=tor&since=2026-06-22&until=2026-06-23&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 10/13 measurements anomalous (76.9%)
  - Observed: 2026-06-22
  - Confidence: 81%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=AE&test_name=tor&since=2026-06-22&until=2026-06-23&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 9/17 measurements anomalous (52.9%)
  - Observed: 2026-06-22
  - Confidence: 71%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=AE&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-06-22&until=2026-06-23&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 11/17 measurements anomalous (64.7%)
  - Observed: 2026-06-22
  - Confidence: 76%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=AE&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-06-22&until=2026-06-23&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 16/16 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-06-22
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=AE&test_name=tor&since=2026-06-22&until=2026-06-23&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 7/14 measurements anomalous (50.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-06-22
  - Confidence: 70%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=AE&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-06-22&until=2026-06-23&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 10/14 measurements anomalous (71.4%)
  - Observed: 2026-06-22
  - Confidence: 79%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=AE&test_name=tor&since=2026-06-22&until=2026-06-23&only=anomalies)

## What we cannot say

- **Who caused it** — measurement data alone does not attribute the interference 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, 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.

## Data Sources

ooni

## Citation

Voidly Research. (2026). Censorship detected in AE [AE-2026-1417]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/AE-2026-1417

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*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-08-05*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: AE-2026-1417*
*Permalink: https://voidly.ai/incident/AE-2026-1417*