# Sustained censorship in MY (2026-02)

**Country:** 🇲🇾 Malaysia (MY)
**Date:** 2026-02-19
**Type:** Censorship
**Severity:** CRITICAL
**Status:** confirmed

## Summary

OONI detected 5 days of elevated network interference averaging 60.2% anomaly rate.

## Metrics

- Confidence: 72%
- Measurements (stored incident count; not the qualifying evidence count): 5
- Anomaly Rate: 60.2%

## Evidence

- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 15/22 measurements anomalous (68.2%)
  - Observed: 2026-02-20
  - Confidence: 77%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=MY&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-02-20&until=2026-02-21&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 11/20 measurements anomalous (55.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-02-20
  - Confidence: 72%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=MY&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-02-20&until=2026-02-21&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 20/29 measurements anomalous (69.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-02-20
  - Confidence: 78%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=MY&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-02-20&until=2026-02-21&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 20/36 measurements anomalous (55.6%)
  - Observed: 2026-02-19
  - Confidence: 72%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=MY&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-02-19&until=2026-02-20&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 17/32 measurements anomalous (53.1%)
  - Observed: 2026-02-19
  - Confidence: 71%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=MY&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-02-19&until=2026-02-20&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** — 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 MY (2026-02) [MY-2026-0103]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/MY-2026-0103

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*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-11-05*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: MY-2026-0103*
*Permalink: https://voidly.ai/incident/MY-2026-0103*