# Sustained censorship in LY (2026-02)

**Country:** 🇱🇾 Libya (LY)
**Date:** 2026-02-08
**Type:** Censorship
**Severity:** CRITICAL
**Status:** confirmed

## Summary

OONI detected 16 days of elevated network interference averaging 85.3% anomaly rate.

## Metrics

- Confidence: 80%
- Measurements: 16
- Anomaly Rate: 85.3%

## Evidence

- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 2/3 measurements anomalous (66.7%)
  - Observed: 2026-02-28
  - Confidence: 77%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=LY&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-02-28&until=2026-03-01&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 2/2 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-02-24
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=LY&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-02-24&until=2026-02-25&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 1/2 measurements anomalous (50.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-02-23
  - Confidence: 70%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=LY&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-02-23&until=2026-02-24&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 1/1 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-02-23
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=LY&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-02-23&until=2026-02-24&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 5/5 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-02-21
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=LY&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-02-21&until=2026-02-22&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 5/7 measurements anomalous (71.4%)
  - Observed: 2026-02-21
  - Confidence: 79%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=LY&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-02-21&until=2026-02-22&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 5/6 measurements anomalous (83.3%)
  - Observed: 2026-02-20
  - Confidence: 83%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=LY&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-02-20&until=2026-02-21&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 6/6 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-02-20
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=LY&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-02-20&until=2026-02-21&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 6/6 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-02-20
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=LY&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-02-20&until=2026-02-21&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 6/7 measurements anomalous (85.7%)
  - Observed: 2026-02-20
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=LY&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-02-20&until=2026-02-21&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 6/7 measurements anomalous (85.7%)
  - Observed: 2026-02-19
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=LY&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-02-19&until=2026-02-20&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 4/5 measurements anomalous (80.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-02-19
  - Confidence: 82%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=LY&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-02-19&until=2026-02-20&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 3/4 measurements anomalous (75.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-02-18
  - Confidence: 80%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=LY&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-02-18&until=2026-02-19&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 6/9 measurements anomalous (66.7%)
  - Observed: 2026-02-18
  - Confidence: 77%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=LY&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-02-18&until=2026-02-19&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 1/1 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-02-09
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=LY&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-02-09&until=2026-02-10&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 2/2 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-02-08
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=LY&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-02-08&until=2026-02-09&only=anomalies)

## 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

ooni

## Citation

Voidly Research. (2026). Sustained censorship in LY (2026-02) [LY-2026-0153]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/LY-2026-0153

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*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-08-06*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: LY-2026-0153*
*Permalink: https://voidly.ai/incident/LY-2026-0153*