Active Incident
Confirmed: sustained censorship in QA (2026-06)
Qatar · June 10, 2026 · 6 days
OONI detected 5 days of elevated network interference averaging 50.0% anomaly rate.
Evidence
50%
Anomaly Rate
5
Measurements
72%
Confidence
What This Means
50% 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 Score72% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeJune 10, 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: 1/2 measurements anomalous (50.0%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.50
Jun 16, 2026
View source →middlebox-detection
"OONI http_invalid_request_line: 1/2 measurements anomalous (50.0%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.50
Jun 16, 2026
View source →header-manipulation
"OONI http_header_field_manipulation: 1/2 measurements anomalous (50.0%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.50
Jun 16, 2026
View source →header-manipulation
"OONI http_header_field_manipulation: 1/2 measurements anomalous (50.0%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.50
Jun 11, 2026
View source →middlebox-detection
"OONI http_invalid_request_line: 1/2 measurements anomalous (50.0%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.50
Jun 10, 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 QA (2026-06) [QA-2026-0132]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/QA-2026-0132
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