Sustained censorship in India (2026-08)
India · August 1, 2026 · Ongoing
OONI detected 9 days of elevated network interference averaging 5.0% anomaly rate.
Evidence
5%
Anomaly Rate
9
Measurements
70%
Confidence
What This Means
5% of tests showed anomalies, above the typical 1-3% baseline. This suggests potential network interference.
How We Detected This
Data Sourceooni + censoredplanet
ML ModelGradientBoosting v3.3 (LOCO median F1 0.87, honest across 127 countries)
Confidence Score70% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeAugust 1, 2026
Corroborating Evidence (11)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
OONIOpen Observatory of Network Interference9 records
block
"OONI per-ASN: 69/1308 anomalous, 7 confirmed on AS9829"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.05
Aug 1, 2026
View source →block
"OONI per-ASN: 10/200 anomalous, 26 confirmed on AS17465"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.05
Aug 1, 2026
View source →block
"OONI per-ASN: 30/644 anomalous, 43 confirmed on AS17488"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.05
Aug 1, 2026
View source →block
"OONI per-ASN: 2/200 anomalous, 8 confirmed on AS18209"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.01
Aug 1, 2026
View source →block
"OONI per-ASN: 15/800 anomalous, 25 confirmed on AS24309"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.02
Aug 1, 2026
View source →+ 4 more OONI records
Censored PlanetUniversity of Michigan research2 records
interference
"unknown"— Censored Planet report
Signal value: 0.23
Aug 1, 2026
View source →interference
"unknown"— Censored Planet report
Signal value: 0.51
Aug 1, 2026
View source →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.
- 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.
Cite This Incident
Voidly Research. (2026). Sustained censorship in India (2026-08) [IN-2026-0465]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/IN-2026-0465
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