Active Incident
Confirmed: sustained censorship in Malaysia (2026-02)
Malaysia · February 19, 2026 · 1 day
OONI detected 5 days of elevated network interference averaging 60.2% anomaly rate.
Evidence
60%
Anomaly Rate
5
Measurements
72%
Confidence
What This Means
60% of 5 network tests from Malaysia failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 57+ percentage point difference strongly indicates intentional blocking.
How We Detected This
Data Sourceooni
ML ModelGradientBoosting v3.3 (LOCO median F1 0.87, honest across 127 countries)
Confidence Score72% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeFebruary 19, 2026
Corroborating Evidence (5)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
OONIOpen Observatory of Network Interference5 records
blocking
"OONI whatsapp: 15/22 measurements anomalous (68.2%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.68
Feb 20, 2026
View source →blocking
"OONI whatsapp: 11/20 measurements anomalous (55.0%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.55
Feb 20, 2026
View source →blocking
"OONI whatsapp: 20/29 measurements anomalous (69.0%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.69
Feb 20, 2026
View source →blocking
"OONI whatsapp: 20/36 measurements anomalous (55.6%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.56
Feb 19, 2026
View source →blocking
"OONI whatsapp: 17/32 measurements anomalous (53.1%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.53
Feb 19, 2026
View source →Affected Services (1)
WhatsApp
What we cannot say
- Who caused it — measurement data alone does not attribute this 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, an 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 — this rests on a single source; treat it as a single-source signal, not a multi-source confirmation.
Cite This Incident
Voidly Research. (2026). Confirmed: sustained censorship in Malaysia (2026-02) [MY-2026-0103]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/MY-2026-0103
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