# Censorship detected in EG

**Country:** 🇪🇬 Egypt (EG)
**Date:** 2026-08-03
**Type:** Censorship
**Severity:** CRITICAL
**Status:** suspected

## Summary

None

## Metrics

- Confidence: 90%
- Measurements (stored incident count; not the qualifying evidence count): 4
- Anomaly Rate: 100.0%

## Evidence

- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 7/7 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-03
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=EG&test_name=tor&since=2026-08-03&until=2026-08-04&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 6/6 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-03
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=EG&test_name=tor&since=2026-08-03&until=2026-08-04&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 4/4 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-03
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=EG&test_name=tor&since=2026-08-03&until=2026-08-04&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 6/6 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-03
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=EG&test_name=tor&since=2026-08-03&until=2026-08-04&only=anomalies)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 2/4 probes blocked (50.0%) for chat.openai.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-03
  - Confidence: 80%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 2/4 probes blocked (50.0%) for chatgpt.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-03
  - Confidence: 80%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 2/4 probes blocked (50.0%) for claude.ai
  - Observed: 2026-08-03
  - Confidence: 80%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 2/4 probes blocked (50.0%) for facebook.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-03
  - Confidence: 80%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 2/4 probes blocked (50.0%) for gemini.google.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-03
  - Confidence: 80%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 2/4 probes blocked (50.0%) for huggingface.co
  - Observed: 2026-08-03
  - Confidence: 80%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 2/4 probes blocked (50.0%) for instagram.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-03
  - Confidence: 80%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 2/4 probes blocked (50.0%) for openai.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-03
  - Confidence: 80%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 2/4 probes blocked (50.0%) for signal.org
  - Observed: 2026-08-03
  - Confidence: 80%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 2/4 probes blocked (50.0%) for telegram.org
  - Observed: 2026-08-03
  - Confidence: 80%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 2/4 probes blocked (50.0%) for twitter.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-03
  - Confidence: 80%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 2/4 probes blocked (50.0%) for youtube.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-03
  - Confidence: 80%
  - [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.
- **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 EG [EG-2026-1625]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/EG-2026-1625

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*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-10-14*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: EG-2026-1625*
*Permalink: https://voidly.ai/incident/EG-2026-1625*