# Censorship detected in RU

**Country:** 🇷🇺 Russia (RU)
**Date:** 2026-08-24
**Type:** Censorship
**Severity:** CRITICAL
**Status:** suspected

## Summary

None

## Metrics

- Confidence: 89%
- Measurements (stored incident count; not the qualifying evidence count): 20
- Anomaly Rate: 98.0%

## Evidence

- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 440/534 measurements anomalous (82.4%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-24
  - Confidence: 83%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-24&until=2026-08-25&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 294/373 measurements anomalous (78.8%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-24
  - Confidence: 82%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-08-24&until=2026-08-25&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 304/367 measurements anomalous (82.8%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-24
  - Confidence: 83%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-08-24&until=2026-08-25&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 318/594 measurements anomalous (53.5%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-24
  - Confidence: 71%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-08-24&until=2026-08-25&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 348/361 measurements anomalous (96.4%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-24
  - Confidence: 89%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-08-24&until=2026-08-25&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 526/619 measurements anomalous (85.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-24
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-24&until=2026-08-25&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 334/422 measurements anomalous (79.1%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-24
  - Confidence: 82%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-08-24&until=2026-08-25&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 362/415 measurements anomalous (87.2%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-24
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-08-24&until=2026-08-25&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 362/710 measurements anomalous (51.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-24
  - Confidence: 70%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-08-24&until=2026-08-25&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 420/440 measurements anomalous (95.5%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-24
  - Confidence: 88%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-08-24&until=2026-08-25&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 408/505 measurements anomalous (80.8%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-24
  - Confidence: 82%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-24&until=2026-08-25&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 266/362 measurements anomalous (73.5%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-24
  - Confidence: 79%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-08-24&until=2026-08-25&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 280/356 measurements anomalous (78.7%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-24
  - Confidence: 81%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-08-24&until=2026-08-25&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 313/593 measurements anomalous (52.8%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-24
  - Confidence: 71%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-08-24&until=2026-08-25&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 346/357 measurements anomalous (96.9%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-24
  - Confidence: 89%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-08-24&until=2026-08-25&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 400/476 measurements anomalous (84.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-24
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-24&until=2026-08-25&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 280/354 measurements anomalous (79.1%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-24
  - Confidence: 82%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-08-24&until=2026-08-25&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 296/343 measurements anomalous (86.3%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-24
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-08-24&until=2026-08-25&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 291/556 measurements anomalous (52.3%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-24
  - Confidence: 71%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-08-24&until=2026-08-25&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 341/348 measurements anomalous (98.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-24
  - Confidence: 89%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-08-24&until=2026-08-25&only=anomalies)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 123/171 probes blocked (71.9%) for bbc.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-24
  - Confidence: 87%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 122/171 probes blocked (71.3%) for facebook.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-24
  - Confidence: 86%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 115/171 probes blocked (67.3%) for instagram.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-24
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 130/171 probes blocked (76.0%) for medium.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-24
  - Confidence: 88%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 125/170 probes blocked (73.5%) for nytimes.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-24
  - 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 RU [RU-2026-3050]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/RU-2026-3050

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*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-10-25*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: RU-2026-3050*
*Permalink: https://voidly.ai/incident/RU-2026-3050*