Active Incident
Confirmed: sustained censorship in Pakistan (2026-03)
Pakistan · March 1, 2026 · 29 days
OONI detected 373 days of elevated network interference averaging 98.2% anomaly rate.
Evidence
98%
Anomaly Rate
373
Measurements
85%
Confidence
What This Means
98% of 373 network tests from Pakistan failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 95+ 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 Score85% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeMarch 1, 2026
Corroborating Evidence (373)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
OONIOpen Observatory of Network Interference373 records
blocking
"OONI signal: 27/27 measurements anomalous (100.0%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 1.00
Mar 30, 2026
View source →blocking
"OONI telegram: 26/26 measurements anomalous (100.0%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 1.00
Mar 30, 2026
View source →tor-blocking
"OONI tor: 27/27 measurements anomalous (100.0%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 1.00
Mar 30, 2026
View source →blocking
"OONI signal: 24/24 measurements anomalous (100.0%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 1.00
Mar 30, 2026
View source →blocking
"OONI telegram: 24/24 measurements anomalous (100.0%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 1.00
Mar 30, 2026
View source →+ 368 more OONI records
Affected Services (5)
Facebook MessengerSignalTelegramTorWhatsApp
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 Pakistan (2026-03) [PK-2026-0447]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/PK-2026-0447
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