Active Incident
Confirmed: facebook/Instagram ban
Russia · March 4, 2022 · 10 days
OONI measurements confirm Facebook/Instagram ban. Duration: 2022-03-04 to 2022-03-14.
Evidence
0%
Anomaly Rate
0
Measurements
90%
Confidence
What This Means
0% of tests showed anomalies, above the typical 1-3% baseline. This suggests potential network interference.
How We Detected This
Data Sourceooni
ML ModelGradientBoosting v3.3 (LOCO median F1 0.87, honest across 127 countries)
Confidence Score90% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeMarch 4, 2022
Corroborating Evidence (22)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
OONIOpen Observatory of Network Interference22 records
block
"Ukraine invasion - mass blocks"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.74
Mar 14, 2022
View source →interference
"Web connectivity anomalies detected. 1462 measurements with 74.0% anomaly rate."— OONI report
Signal value: 0.74
Mar 14, 2022
View source →block
"Ukraine invasion - mass blocks"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.77
Mar 13, 2022
View source →interference
"Web connectivity anomalies detected. 1378 measurements with 76.8% anomaly rate."— OONI report
Signal value: 0.77
Mar 13, 2022
View source →block
"Ukraine invasion - mass blocks"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.77
Mar 12, 2022
View source →+ 17 more OONI records
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. (2022). Confirmed: facebook/Instagram ban [RU-2022-0003]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/RU-2022-0003
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