Active Incident
Confirmed: sustained censorship in Turkmenistan (2026-02)
Turkmenistan · February 22, 2026 · 2 days
OONI detected 14 days of elevated network interference averaging 96.9% anomaly rate.
Evidence
97%
Anomaly Rate
14
Measurements
85%
Confidence
What This Means
97% of 14 network tests from Turkmenistan failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 94+ 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 TimeFebruary 22, 2026
Corroborating Evidence (14)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
OONIOpen Observatory of Network Interference14 records
interference
"OONI web_connectivity: 16/17 measurements anomalous (94.1%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.94
Feb 24, 2026
View source →blocking
"OONI facebook_messenger: 1/1 measurements anomalous (100.0%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 1.00
Feb 23, 2026
View source →tor-blocking
"OONI tor: 1/1 measurements anomalous (100.0%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 1.00
Feb 23, 2026
View source →interference
"OONI web_connectivity: 78/100 measurements anomalous (78.0%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.78
Feb 23, 2026
View source →blocking
"OONI signal: 1/1 measurements anomalous (100.0%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 1.00
Feb 23, 2026
View source →+ 9 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 Turkmenistan (2026-02) [TM-2026-0037]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/TM-2026-0037
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