# Sustained censorship in MD (2026-10)

**Country:** 🇲🇩 Moldova (MD)
**Date:** 2026-10-06
**Type:** Censorship
**Severity:** CRITICAL
**Status:** confirmed

## Summary

OONI detected 10 days of elevated network interference averaging 63.0% anomaly rate.

## Metrics

- Confidence: 77%
- Measurements (stored incident count; not the qualifying evidence count): 10
- Anomaly Rate: 63.0%

## Evidence

- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 2 anomaly + 0 confirmed / 4 nonfailed measurements (50.0% blocked; 0 failed)
  - Observed: 2026-10-07
  - Confidence: 70%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=MD&test_name=telegram&since=2026-10-07&until=2026-10-08)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 4 anomaly + 0 confirmed / 6 nonfailed measurements (66.7% blocked; 0 failed)
  - Observed: 2026-10-07
  - Confidence: 77%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=MD&test_name=tor&since=2026-10-07&until=2026-10-08)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI http_header_field_manipulation: 2 anomaly + 0 confirmed / 4 nonfailed measurements (50.0% blocked; 0 failed)
  - Observed: 2026-10-07
  - Confidence: 70%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=MD&test_name=http_header_field_manipulation&since=2026-10-07&until=2026-10-08)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 5 anomaly + 0 confirmed / 10 nonfailed measurements (50.0% blocked; 0 failed)
  - Observed: 2026-10-07
  - Confidence: 70%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=MD&test_name=tor&since=2026-10-07&until=2026-10-08)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 2 anomaly + 0 confirmed / 4 nonfailed measurements (50.0% blocked; 0 failed)
  - Observed: 2026-10-06
  - Confidence: 70%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=MD&test_name=telegram&since=2026-10-06&until=2026-10-07)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 4 anomaly + 0 confirmed / 6 nonfailed measurements (66.7% blocked; 0 failed)
  - Observed: 2026-10-06
  - Confidence: 77%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=MD&test_name=tor&since=2026-10-06&until=2026-10-07)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI http_header_field_manipulation: 2 anomaly + 0 confirmed / 4 nonfailed measurements (50.0% blocked; 0 failed)
  - Observed: 2026-10-06
  - Confidence: 70%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=MD&test_name=http_header_field_manipulation&since=2026-10-06&until=2026-10-07)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 5 anomaly + 0 confirmed / 6 nonfailed measurements (83.3% blocked; 0 failed)
  - Observed: 2026-10-06
  - Confidence: 83%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=MD&test_name=telegram&since=2026-10-06&until=2026-10-07)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 5 anomaly + 0 confirmed / 6 nonfailed measurements (83.3% blocked; 0 failed)
  - Observed: 2026-10-06
  - Confidence: 83%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=MD&test_name=tor&since=2026-10-06&until=2026-10-07)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI http_header_field_manipulation: 4 anomaly + 0 confirmed / 5 nonfailed measurements (80.0% blocked; 0 failed)
  - Observed: 2026-10-06
  - Confidence: 82%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=MD&test_name=http_header_field_manipulation&since=2026-10-06&until=2026-10-07)

## 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.
- **Independent corroboration** — fewer than two source labels appear in qualifying linked evidence; stored incident source labels may include quarantined OONI observations.

## Data Sources

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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). Sustained censorship in MD (2026-10) [MD-2026-0048]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/MD-2026-0048

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*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-10-09*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: MD-2026-0048*
*Permalink: https://voidly.ai/incident/MD-2026-0048*