# Censorship detected in MM

**Country:** 🇲🇲 Myanmar (MM)
**Date:** 2026-08-19
**Type:** Censorship
**Severity:** CRITICAL
**Status:** suspected

## Summary

None

## Metrics

- Confidence: 90%
- Measurements (stored incident count; not the qualifying evidence count): 16
- Anomaly Rate: 100.0%

## Evidence

- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 8/8 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-19
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=MM&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-19&until=2026-08-20&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 8/8 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-19
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=MM&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-08-19&until=2026-08-20&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 8/8 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-19
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=MM&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-08-19&until=2026-08-20&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 7/8 measurements anomalous (87.5%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-19
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=MM&test_name=tor&since=2026-08-19&until=2026-08-20&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 10/10 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-19
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=MM&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-19&until=2026-08-20&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 10/10 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-19
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=MM&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-08-19&until=2026-08-20&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 10/10 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-19
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=MM&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-08-19&until=2026-08-20&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 8/10 measurements anomalous (80.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-19
  - Confidence: 82%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=MM&test_name=tor&since=2026-08-19&until=2026-08-20&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 5/5 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-19
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=MM&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-19&until=2026-08-20&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 5/5 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-19
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=MM&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-08-19&until=2026-08-20&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 5/5 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-19
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=MM&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-08-19&until=2026-08-20&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 4/5 measurements anomalous (80.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-19
  - Confidence: 82%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=MM&test_name=tor&since=2026-08-19&until=2026-08-20&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 5/5 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-19
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=MM&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-19&until=2026-08-20&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 5/5 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-19
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=MM&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-08-19&until=2026-08-20&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 5/5 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-19
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=MM&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-08-19&until=2026-08-20&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 3/5 measurements anomalous (60.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-19
  - Confidence: 74%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=MM&test_name=tor&since=2026-08-19&until=2026-08-20&only=anomalies)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTPS blocking (tcp-reset): 7/11 probes blocked (63.6%) for facebook.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-19
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTPS blocking (tcp-reset): 8/11 probes blocked (72.7%) for instagram.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-19
  - Confidence: 87%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTPS blocking (tcp-reset): 8/11 probes blocked (72.7%) for protonvpn.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-19
  - Confidence: 87%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTPS blocking (tcp-reset): 7/11 probes blocked (63.6%) for signal.org
  - Observed: 2026-08-19
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTPS blocking (tcp-reset): 6/11 probes blocked (54.5%) for twitter.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-19
  - Confidence: 81%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTPS blocking (tcp-reset): 8/11 probes blocked (72.7%) for whatsapp.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-19
  - Confidence: 87%
  - [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.
- **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** — 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 MM [MM-2026-2047]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/MM-2026-2047

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*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-10-23*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: MM-2026-2047*
*Permalink: https://voidly.ai/incident/MM-2026-2047*