# Censorship detected in AE

**Country:** 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates (AE)
**Date:** 2026-08-29
**Type:** Censorship
**Severity:** CRITICAL
**Status:** suspected

## Summary

None

## Metrics

- Confidence: 85%
- Measurements: 6
- Anomaly Rate: 87.5%

## Evidence

- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 5/9 measurements anomalous (55.6%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-29
  - Confidence: 72%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=AE&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-29&until=2026-08-30&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 11/16 measurements anomalous (68.8%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-29
  - Confidence: 78%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=AE&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-29&until=2026-08-30&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 7/14 measurements anomalous (50.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-29
  - Confidence: 70%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=AE&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-29&until=2026-08-30&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 11/13 measurements anomalous (84.6%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-29
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=AE&test_name=tor&since=2026-08-29&until=2026-08-30&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 4/8 measurements anomalous (50.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-29
  - Confidence: 70%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=AE&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-29&until=2026-08-30&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 7/8 measurements anomalous (87.5%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-29
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=AE&test_name=tor&since=2026-08-29&until=2026-08-30&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-2026-1496]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/AE-2026-1496

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*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-08-30*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: AE-2026-1496*
*Permalink: https://voidly.ai/incident/AE-2026-1496*