# Sustained censorship in VE (2026-10)

**Country:** 🇻🇪 Venezuela (VE)
**Date:** 2026-10-27
**Type:** Censorship
**Severity:** CRITICAL
**Status:** confirmed

## Summary

OONI detected 3 days of elevated network interference averaging 64.1% anomaly rate.

## Metrics

- Confidence: 69%
- Measurements (stored incident count; not the qualifying evidence count): 3
- Anomaly Rate: 64.1%

## Evidence

- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 17 anomaly + 0 confirmed / 24 nonfailed measurements (70.8% blocked; 0 failed)
  - Observed: 2026-10-27
  - Confidence: 78%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=VE&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-10-27&until=2026-10-28)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 35 anomaly + 0 confirmed / 49 nonfailed measurements (71.4% blocked; 0 failed)
  - Observed: 2026-10-27
  - Confidence: 79%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=VE&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-10-27&until=2026-10-28)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 17 anomaly + 0 confirmed / 34 nonfailed measurements (50.0% blocked; 0 failed)
  - Observed: 2026-10-27
  - Confidence: 70%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=VE&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-10-27&until=2026-10-28)

## 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.
- **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 VE (2026-10) [VE-2026-1743]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/VE-2026-1743

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*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-10-28*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: VE-2026-1743*
*Permalink: https://voidly.ai/incident/VE-2026-1743*