# Censorship detected in AE

**Country:** 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates (AE)
**Date:** 2026-09-19
**Type:** Censorship
**Severity:** CRITICAL
**Status:** suspected

## Summary

None

## Metrics

- Confidence: 84%
- Measurements (stored incident count; not the qualifying evidence count): 4
- Anomaly Rate: 85.7%

## Evidence

- **OONI** (measurement): OONI http_header_field_manipulation: 2/4 measurements anomalous (50.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-19
  - Confidence: 70%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=AE&test_name=http_header_field_manipulation&since=2026-09-19&until=2026-09-20&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 2/3 measurements anomalous (66.7%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-19
  - Confidence: 77%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=AE&test_name=signal&since=2026-09-19&until=2026-09-20&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 2/4 measurements anomalous (50.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-19
  - Confidence: 70%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=AE&test_name=tor&since=2026-09-19&until=2026-09-20&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 6/7 measurements anomalous (85.7%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-19
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=AE&test_name=tor&since=2026-09-19&until=2026-09-20&only=anomalies)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (event): unknown
  - Observed: 2026-09-19
  - Confidence: 50%
  - [Publisher context (individual measurement unverified)](https://dashboard.censoredplanet.org/?country=AE)

## 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.
- **Sub-national scope** — measurement is aggregated at the country level; we cannot localize to a province, city, or network segment.
- **Independent corroboration** — multiple qualifying evidence source labels do not establish target/time agreement or source independence.

## Data Sources

censoredplanet, ooni

These source labels come from qualifying linked evidence. Historical incident source labels and quarantined observations are excluded; multiple labels alone do not establish independent corroboration.

## Citation

Voidly Research. (2026). Censorship detected in AE [AE-2026-1523]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/AE-2026-1523

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*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-11-05*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: AE-2026-1523*
*Permalink: https://voidly.ai/incident/AE-2026-1523*