# Censorship detected in VE

**Country:** 🇻🇪 Venezuela (VE)
**Date:** 2026-08-02
**Type:** Censorship
**Severity:** CRITICAL
**Status:** suspected

## Summary

None

## Metrics

- Confidence: 81%
- Measurements: 4
- Anomaly Rate: 76.3%

## Evidence

- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 22/36 measurements anomalous (61.1%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-02
  - Confidence: 74%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=VE&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-02&until=2026-08-03&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 26/37 measurements anomalous (70.3%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-02
  - Confidence: 78%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=VE&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-02&until=2026-08-03&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 31/46 measurements anomalous (67.4%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-02
  - Confidence: 77%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=VE&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-02&until=2026-08-03&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 29/38 measurements anomalous (76.3%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-02
  - Confidence: 81%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=VE&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-02&until=2026-08-03&only=anomalies)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 6/6 probes anomalous (100.0%) for bbc.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 6/6 probes anomalous (100.0%) for chat.openai.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 6/6 probes anomalous (100.0%) for chatgpt.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 6/6 probes anomalous (100.0%) for claude.ai
  - Observed: 2026-08-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 4/4 probes anomalous (100.0%) for facebook.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 4/4 probes anomalous (100.0%) for gemini.google.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 6/6 probes anomalous (100.0%) for getlantern.org
  - Observed: 2026-08-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 3/3 probes anomalous (100.0%) for google.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 6/6 probes anomalous (100.0%) for huggingface.co
  - Observed: 2026-08-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 5/5 probes anomalous (100.0%) for instagram.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 6/6 probes anomalous (100.0%) for medium.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 6/6 probes anomalous (100.0%) for nytimes.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 6/6 probes anomalous (100.0%) for openai.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 5/5 probes anomalous (100.0%) for protonvpn.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 6/6 probes anomalous (100.0%) for psiphon.ca
  - Observed: 2026-08-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 3/3 probes anomalous (100.0%) for reddit.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 5/5 probes anomalous (100.0%) for signal.org
  - Observed: 2026-08-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 6/6 probes anomalous (100.0%) for substack.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 6/6 probes anomalous (100.0%) for telegram.org
  - Observed: 2026-08-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 6/6 probes anomalous (100.0%) for theguardian.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 4/4 probes anomalous (100.0%) for tiktok.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 6/6 probes anomalous (100.0%) for tumblr.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 3/3 probes anomalous (100.0%) for twitter.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 3/3 probes anomalous (100.0%) for whatsapp.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 3/3 probes anomalous (100.0%) for youtube.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](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.
- **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.

## Data Sources

ooni, censoredplanet

## Citation

Voidly Research. (2026). Censorship detected in VE [VE-2026-1579]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/VE-2026-1579

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*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-08-03*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: VE-2026-1579*
*Permalink: https://voidly.ai/incident/VE-2026-1579*