# Censorship detected in DZ

**Country:** 🇩🇿 Algeria (DZ)
**Date:** 2026-09-02
**Type:** Censorship
**Severity:** CRITICAL
**Status:** suspected

## Summary

None

## Metrics

- Confidence: 77%
- Measurements (stored incident count; not the qualifying evidence count): 2
- Anomaly Rate: 66.7%

## Evidence

- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 4/6 measurements anomalous (66.7%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-02
  - Confidence: 77%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=DZ&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-09-02&until=2026-09-03&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 3/6 measurements anomalous (50.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-02
  - Confidence: 70%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=DZ&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-09-02&until=2026-09-03&only=anomalies)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 2/2 probes anomalous (100.0%) for tiktok.com
  - Observed: 2026-09-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)

## 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.
- **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** — 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 DZ [DZ-2026-0951]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/DZ-2026-0951

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*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-10-14*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: DZ-2026-0951*
*Permalink: https://voidly.ai/incident/DZ-2026-0951*