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🎉 OONI measurement coverage is expanding in countries where data was once scarce, including Burkina Faso, DRC, Afghanistan, and Syria. 🙏
https://ooni.org/data

This is thanks to Deutsche Welle's outreach around News Media Scan, an app we developed in close collaboration to test censorship of news media websites. 🐙
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dw.ooniprobe ✨

‼️ #Russia has blocked Telegram, one of the most widely used messaging platforms in the country
https://explorer.ooni.org/findings/96225549500

OONI data suggests that many ISPs in Russia began blocking access to Telegram on 20 March 2026.

This follows blocks of other major services, including WhatsApp, Signal, Instagram, and numerous independent news outlets.

#ooni #opensource #telegram #censorship

❗️Yesterday, #Gabon started blocking access to social media platforms

We just published a report documenting the blocking of WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube in Gabon based on OONI data: https://explorer.ooni.org/findings/340845567300

OONI data suggests that the blocks are implemented by means of DNS interference, as DNS queries return NXDOMAIN errors.

We thank community members in Gabon for contributing measurements 🙏

#ooni #ooniprobe #censorship #opensource

‼️ Last week, #Uganda experienced an internet shutdown during its 2026 general elections.

After 5 days, internet access was restored -- but major social media and messaging platforms remained blocked.

OONI data shows the blocking of WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter/X in Uganda over the past week.

Learn more in our latest report: https://explorer.ooni.org/findings/352623460000 🐙✨

#ooni #censorship #opendata

Huge thanks to everyone who donated to OONI! ♥️

As part of our 2025 end-of-year fundraising campaign, we raised €45,108. We are deeply grateful for each and every contribution. 🙏

Your support means a great deal to us, and helps us continue providing free software tools and open data in defense of a free and open internet. 🐙

Thanks a million for your trust and support! ♥️

#ooni #donate

We’re thrilled to host Sadia Nourin as an OTF Information Controls Research Fellow! 😍🥳

Her work will measure transit censorship worldwide -- using IPv4/IPv6 measurements and extending OONI Probe to pinpoint where censorship occurs on the network path. 🐙
https://www.opentech.fund/fellows/sadia-nourin/

#ooni #censorship #opensource #opendata #research

🎉 Today marks 9 years since we launched the OONI Probe Mobile App!

Its launch led to a major increase in global OONI measurement coverage 🐙✨

Warm thanks to everyone running OONI Probe and contributing to the world’s largest open dataset on internet censorship 🙏❤️
https://ooni.org/install/mobile

#ooni #censorship #ooniprobe #launch #anniversary #opensource #opendata

We’ve been building an Anonymous Credentials system to strengthen trust in OONI data 💪

Today we’re sharing details of the system 👇
https://ooni.org/post/2025-announcing-ooni-new-anonymous-credential-system/

Feedback welcome, especially from cryptographers & implementers 🙌

It's been a big year protecting an Open Internet.

In 2025 we collected 566M msmts from 214 CCs in 10k nets

As the Internet is increasingly fragmented, transparency is ever more essential.

Thank you for helping us build the world's largest Open dataset on Network Interference❣️

It's 13 yrs since our 1st Myanmar measurement (Dec 5, 2012) on AS18399 📊
🔗 https://explorer.ooni.org/m/01201212058caa1e07f407aa96c4e33a12c056e2

As #Myanmar elections start tomorrow, we recommit to documenting #NetInterference globally.

#MyanmarElections #DocumentCensorship