# Internet censorship detected in Iraq

**Country:** 🇮🇶 Iraq (IQ)
**Date:** 2026-04-03
**Type:** Censorship
**Severity:** WARNING
**Status:** suspected

## Summary

CenAlert detected interference. Impact: 0.4. Reported by: unknown.

## Metrics

- Confidence: 65%
- Measurements: 1
- Anomaly Rate: 0.4%

## Evidence

- **CENSOREDPLANET** (event): unknown
  - Observed: 2026-04-03
  - Confidence: 50%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://dashboard.censoredplanet.org/?country=IQ)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (event): unknown
  - Observed: 2026-04-03
  - Confidence: 50%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://dashboard.censoredplanet.org/?country=IQ)

## 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

censoredplanet

## Citation

Voidly Research. (2026). Internet censorship detected in Iraq [IQ-2026-0053]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/IQ-2026-0053

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*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-06-21*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: IQ-2026-0053*
*Permalink: https://voidly.ai/incident/IQ-2026-0053*