# Sustained censorship in TM (2026-02)

**Country:** 🇹🇲 Turkmenistan (TM)
**Date:** 2026-02-22
**Type:** Censorship
**Severity:** CRITICAL
**Status:** confirmed

## Summary

OONI detected 14 days of elevated network interference averaging 96.9% anomaly rate.

## Metrics

- Confidence: 85%
- Measurements (stored incident count; not the qualifying evidence count): 14
- Anomaly Rate: 96.9%

## Evidence

- **OONI** (measurement): OONI web_connectivity: 16/17 measurements anomalous (94.1%)
  - Observed: 2026-02-24
  - Confidence: 88%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=TM&test_name=web_connectivity&since=2026-02-24&until=2026-02-25&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 1/1 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-02-23
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=TM&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-02-23&until=2026-02-24&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 1/1 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-02-23
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=TM&test_name=tor&since=2026-02-23&until=2026-02-24&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI web_connectivity: 78/100 measurements anomalous (78.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-02-23
  - Confidence: 81%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=TM&test_name=web_connectivity&since=2026-02-23&until=2026-02-24&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 1/1 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-02-23
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=TM&test_name=signal&since=2026-02-23&until=2026-02-24&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 1/1 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-02-23
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=TM&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-02-23&until=2026-02-24&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 1/1 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-02-23
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=TM&test_name=telegram&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 filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=TM&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-02-23&until=2026-02-24&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 1/1 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-02-23
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=TM&test_name=tor&since=2026-02-23&until=2026-02-24&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI web_connectivity: 83/99 measurements anomalous (83.8%)
  - Observed: 2026-02-23
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=TM&test_name=web_connectivity&since=2026-02-23&until=2026-02-24&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 1/1 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-02-23
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=TM&test_name=signal&since=2026-02-23&until=2026-02-24&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 1/1 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-02-23
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=TM&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-02-23&until=2026-02-24&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 1/1 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-02-23
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=TM&test_name=telegram&since=2026-02-23&until=2026-02-24&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI web_connectivity: 5/5 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-02-22
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=TM&test_name=web_connectivity&since=2026-02-22&until=2026-02-23&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

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). Sustained censorship in TM (2026-02) [TM-2026-0037]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/TM-2026-0037

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*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-11-05*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: TM-2026-0037*
*Permalink: https://voidly.ai/incident/TM-2026-0037*