# Censorship detected in EG

**Country:** 🇪🇬 Egypt (EG)
**Date:** 2026-07-30
**Type:** Censorship
**Severity:** CRITICAL
**Status:** suspected

## Summary

None

## Metrics

- Confidence: 90%
- Measurements: 6
- Anomaly Rate: 100.0%

## Evidence

- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 5/10 measurements anomalous (50.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-07-30
  - Confidence: 70%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=EG&test_name=tor&since=2026-07-30&until=2026-07-31&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI http_invalid_request_line: 7/11 measurements anomalous (63.6%)
  - Observed: 2026-07-30
  - Confidence: 75%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=EG&test_name=http_invalid_request_line&since=2026-07-30&until=2026-07-31&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 6/8 measurements anomalous (75.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-07-30
  - Confidence: 80%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=EG&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-07-30&until=2026-07-31&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI http_invalid_request_line: 6/10 measurements anomalous (60.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-07-30
  - Confidence: 74%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=EG&test_name=http_invalid_request_line&since=2026-07-30&until=2026-07-31&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 4/4 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-07-30
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=EG&test_name=tor&since=2026-07-30&until=2026-07-31&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 3/3 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-07-30
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=EG&test_name=tor&since=2026-07-30&until=2026-07-31&only=anomalies)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 2/3 probes blocked (66.7%) for chat.openai.com
  - Observed: 2026-07-30
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 2/3 probes blocked (66.7%) for chatgpt.com
  - Observed: 2026-07-30
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 2/3 probes blocked (66.7%) for claude.ai
  - Observed: 2026-07-30
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 2/3 probes blocked (66.7%) for facebook.com
  - Observed: 2026-07-30
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 2/3 probes blocked (66.7%) for gemini.google.com
  - Observed: 2026-07-30
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 2/3 probes blocked (66.7%) for huggingface.co
  - Observed: 2026-07-30
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 2/3 probes blocked (66.7%) for instagram.com
  - Observed: 2026-07-30
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 2/3 probes blocked (66.7%) for openai.com
  - Observed: 2026-07-30
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 2/3 probes blocked (66.7%) for signal.org
  - Observed: 2026-07-30
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 2/3 probes blocked (66.7%) for telegram.org
  - Observed: 2026-07-30
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 2/3 probes blocked (66.7%) for twitter.com
  - Observed: 2026-07-30
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 2/3 probes blocked (66.7%) for youtube.com
  - Observed: 2026-07-30
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](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.
- **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.
- **A confirmed duration** — we report the observation window, not a verified start/stop of any block.
- **Sub-national scope** — measurement is aggregated at the country level; we cannot localize to a province, city, or network segment.

## Data Sources

ooni, censoredplanet

## Citation

Voidly Research. (2026). Censorship detected in EG [EG-2026-1618]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/EG-2026-1618

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*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-08-01*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: EG-2026-1618*
*Permalink: https://voidly.ai/incident/EG-2026-1618*