Research Reports & Blog Posts

Launch: New OONI Explorer thematic censorship pages

2 Apr 2025

Requirements for OONI’s anonymous credentials system

24 Mar 2025

A Legal and Technical Analysis of Internet Censorship in France

6 Mar 2025

Launch: New OONI Probe multiplatform app

4 Mar 2025

Probe Security Without Identification

20 Feb 2025

Year in Review: OONI in 2024

6 Feb 2025

Survey: Share your feedback on OONI tools, resources and documentation

31 Jan 2025

Censorship Chronicles: The systematic suppression of independent media in Russia

9 Dec 2024

Translations: ru

Launch: Next generation OONI Run for community-driven censorship testing

23 Oct 2024

iMAP 2024: State of Internet Censorship in 9 countries

23 Oct 2024

Animation: OONI Partner Gathering 2024

21 Oct 2024

Job Opening: OONI Backend Developer

10 Oct 2024

OONI Community Interviews: Chido Musodza

7 Oct 2024

Russia blocked OONI Explorer, a large open dataset on Internet censorship

25 Sep 2024

Kazakhstan: TLS MITM attacks and blocking of news media, human rights, and circumvention tool sites

19 Sep 2024

Translations: rukk

OONI Partner Gathering 2024 in Malaysia

25 Jul 2024

OONI Community Interviews: Tawanda Mugari

26 Jun 2024

Tanzania: Surge in online LGBTIQ censorship and other targeted blocks

11 Apr 2024

Translations: sw

Internet sanctions on Russian media: diverging actions and mixed effects

25 Mar 2024

Year in Review: OONI in 2023

22 Dec 2023

OONI Community Interviews: Ihueze Nwobilor

14 Dec 2023

Launch: New OONI Censorship Findings platform

30 Nov 2023

Measure all the Things! IMC Hackathon 2023

24 Nov 2023

iMAP 2023: State of Internet Censorship in 10 countries

23 Oct 2023

OONI Community Interviews: Siti Nurliza

16 Oct 2023

Grindr blocked in Jordan: Shrinking LGBTQ spaces

20 Sep 2023

Join us at the IMC 2023 Hackathon on Network Interference using Open Data

28 Aug 2023

Senegal: Social media blocks and network outages amid political unrest

1 Aug 2023

China is blocking OONI

28 Jul 2023

New OONI Explorer features for investigating internet censorship through open data

30 May 2023

Job Opening: OONI Project Manager

2 May 2023

Throttling of news media amid Kazakhstan’s 2022 presidential election

28 Apr 2023

Brazil: OONI data on the blocking of Telegram

28 Apr 2023

Introducing OONI Probe Web

20 Mar 2023

How we're improving OONI data quality: An analysis of failed measurements

13 Mar 2023

OONI measurements show ongoing internet censorship in Azerbaijan

28 Feb 2023

How Internet censorship changed in Russia during the 1st year of military conflict in Ukraine

24 Feb 2023

Translations: ru

Turkey: Throttling and DNS blocking of Twitter following deadly earthquake

15 Feb 2023

Pakistan: Blocking of Wikipedia and Deutsche Welle (DW)

15 Feb 2023

Ethiopia: Ongoing blocking of social media

15 Feb 2023

Year in Review: OONI in 2022

23 Dec 2022

iMAP State of Internet Censorship Report 2022 - Vietnam

23 Dec 2022

iMAP State of Internet Censorship Report 2022 - Thailand

23 Dec 2022

iMAP State of Internet Censorship Report 2022 - Philippines

23 Dec 2022

iMAP State of Internet Censorship Report 2022 - Myanmar

23 Dec 2022

iMAP State of Internet Censorship Report 2022 - Malaysia

23 Dec 2022

iMAP State of Internet Censorship Report 2022 - Indonesia

23 Dec 2022

iMAP State of Internet Censorship Report 2022 - Hong Kong

23 Dec 2022

iMAP State of Internet Censorship Report 2022 - Cambodia

23 Dec 2022

iMAP 2022: New Research Reports on Internet Censorship in 8 Asian countries

23 Dec 2022

OONI Community Video

9 Dec 2022

Highlights: 10 Years of OONI

5 Dec 2022

Technical multi-stakeholder report on Internet shutdowns: The case of Iran amid autumn 2022 protests

29 Nov 2022

Join the 10th Ooniversary Events!

24 Nov 2022

Survey: Help shape OONI’s strategic priorities

20 Oct 2022

New online OONI training course launched by Advocacy Assembly

3 Oct 2022

Iran blocks social media, app stores and encrypted DNS amid Mahsa Amini protests

25 Sep 2022

Azerbaijan and Armenia block TikTok amid border clashes

16 Sep 2022

New Test Lists Editor: Contribute websites for censorship testing

29 Jul 2022

Measuring DoT/DoH Blocking Using OONI Probe: A Preliminary Study

17 Jun 2022

A Quick Look at QUIC Censorship

16 Jun 2022

OONI’s submission for the OHCHR report on internet shutdowns and human rights

15 Jun 2022

Job Opening: OONI Community Coordinator

13 May 2022

New Launch: OONI Measurement Aggregation Toolkit (MAT)

12 Apr 2022

New blocks emerge in Russia amid war in Ukraine: An OONI network measurement analysis

7 Mar 2022

Measuring HTTP/3 censorship with OONI Probe

19 Jan 2022

Year in Review: OONI in 2021

27 Dec 2021

iThena integration of OONI Probe boosts censorship measurement coverage worldwide

20 Dec 2021

Russia started blocking Tor

17 Dec 2021

[Event Report] India, Let's Build the List

1 Dec 2021

Why Collaboration and Transparency is Key to Internet Measurement

30 Nov 2021

A multi-perspective view of Internet censorship in Myanmar

11 Nov 2021

Investigating Internet shutdowns through Mozilla telemetry

8 Nov 2021

How countries attempt to block Signal Private Messenger App around the world

21 Oct 2021

Job Opening: Mobile Developer for OONI Probe

17 Sep 2021

Italy blocks Gutenberg book publishing website

10 Sep 2021

No Access: LGBTIQ Website Censorship in Six Countries

31 Aug 2021

Zambia: Social media blocked amid 2021 general elections

24 Aug 2021

Accessing OONI data

24 Aug 2021

A brief introduction to OONI

24 Aug 2021

OONI Partner Training 2021

7 Jul 2021

Media censorship in Azerbaijan through the lens of network measurement

2 Jul 2021

Making the OONI Probe Android app more resilient

27 May 2021

Myanmar: Data on internet blocks and internet outages following military coup

9 Mar 2021

Uganda: Data on internet blocks and nationwide internet outage amid 2021 general election

22 Jan 2021

Year in Review: OONI in 2020

21 Dec 2020

Investigating Encrypted DNS Blocking in India

30 Oct 2020

Tanzania blocks social media (and Tor?) on election day

28 Oct 2020

OONI Probe ASN Incident Report

9 Oct 2020

Belarus protests: From internet outages to pervasive website censorship

15 Sep 2020

Internet Measurement Village 2020: Slides & Video Recordings

27 Jul 2020

Support the OTF: Support a Free and Open Internet

22 Jul 2020

Measurement observations on network performance during the COVID-19 pandemic in Northern Italy

17 Jul 2020

Investigating TLS blocking in India

8 Jul 2020

Azərbaycan: OONI Probe Test üçün çağırış

25 Jun 2020

DNS over TLS blocked in Iran

24 Jun 2020

Save Internet Freedom: Support the Open Technology Fund

19 Jun 2020

Those Unspoken Thoughts: A study of censorship and media freedom in Manipur, India

18 Jun 2020

OONI Run Usability Study: Findings

9 Jun 2020

Join the online Internet Measurement Village 2020

5 Jun 2020

Evaluating OONI’s New Measurement Engine in the Context of the Blocking of Women on Web in Spain

27 May 2020

Burundi blocks social media amid 2020 general election

21 May 2020

Myanmar blocks “fake news” websites amid COVID-19 pandemic

6 May 2020

Measuring SNI based blocking in Iran

28 Apr 2020

OONI Run Survey & Interviews: Share your feedback

23 Apr 2020

Launched: New OONI Probe Desktop App for Windows and macOS

21 Apr 2020

Building a smart URL list system: Policy for URL prioritization

15 Apr 2020

Let's measure the accessibility of COVID-19 websites around the world

23 Mar 2020

Year in Review: OONI in 2019

20 Mar 2020

Iran temporarily blocks the Farsi language edition of Wikipedia

4 Mar 2020

OONI Highlights: 2017-2019

2 Mar 2020

Togo: Instant messaging apps blocked amid 2020 presidential election

25 Feb 2020

Call to Action: Let’s measure the blocking of LGBTQI websites around the world!

4 Dec 2019

Iran’s nation-wide Internet blackout: Measurement data and technical observations

23 Nov 2019

On the blocking of abortion rights websites: Women on Waves & Women on Web

29 Oct 2019

Egypt blocks BBC and Alhurra: Expanding media censorship amid political unrest

26 Sep 2019

Translations: ar

Next Generation OONI Explorer Launched!

12 Sep 2019

Resurgence of Internet Censorship in Ethiopia: Blocking of WhatsApp, Facebook, and African Arguments

14 Aug 2019

Ethiopia: From internet blackouts to the blocking of WhatsApp and Telegram

21 Jun 2019

Jordan: Measuring Facebook live-streaming interference during protests

12 Jun 2019

Nigeria’s 2019 elections through the lens of network measurements

29 May 2019

China is now blocking all language editions of Wikipedia

4 May 2019

Translations: zh

Benin: Social media blocking and Internet blackout amid 2019 elections

30 Apr 2019

Cuba blocks independent media amid 2019 constitutional referendum

26 Feb 2019

OONI Software Development Guidelines

23 Feb 2019

OONI Probe Android 2.0.0 Incident Report

22 Feb 2019

From the blocking of Wikipedia to Social Media: Venezuela's Political Crisis

29 Jan 2019

Zimbabwe protests: Social media blocking and internet blackouts

23 Jan 2019

Year in Review: OONI in 2018

18 Jan 2019

Major Revamp: OONI Probe Mobile App 2.0 Launched!

14 Jan 2019

Internet disruption in Gabon amid coup attempt

9 Jan 2019

Uganda's Social Media Tax through the lens of network measurements

12 Nov 2018

The State of Internet Censorship in Venezuela

16 Aug 2018

South Sudan: Measuring Internet Censorship in the World's Youngest Nation

1 Aug 2018

Mali: Social media disruptions amid 2018 presidential election?

31 Jul 2018

Do you use OONI Probe? We want your feedback!

19 Jul 2018

The State of Internet Censorship in Egypt

2 Jul 2018

Ethiopia: Verifying the unblocking of websites

29 Jun 2018

Nigeria: Measuring Internet Censorship

11 Jun 2018

OONI Community Interviews: Julie Owono

23 May 2018

OONI at RightsCon 2018

11 May 2018

OONI Community Interviews: Moses Karanja

9 May 2018

ParkNet: Short Documentary on Internet Censorship in Cuba

23 Apr 2018

OONI's recent participation at events in Africa, India, and Europe

11 Apr 2018

Sierra Leone: Network disruptions amid 2018 runoff elections

5 Apr 2018

Investigating Internet Blackouts from the Edge of the network: OONI's new upcoming methodology

4 Apr 2018

Iran Protests: DPI blocking of Instagram (Part 2)

14 Feb 2018

Iran Protests: OONI data confirms censorship events (Part 1)

5 Jan 2018

Year in Review: OONI in 2017

30 Dec 2017

OONI at the 34th Chaos Communication Congress (34C3)

23 Dec 2017

OONI at LAVITS and Primavera Hacker 2017

12 Dec 2017

How Pakistan blocked news outlets, social media sites, and IM apps amidst protests

29 Nov 2017

Identifying cases of DNS misconfiguration: Not quite censorship

24 Nov 2017

Writing a modern cross-platform desktop app

30 Oct 2017

OONI Team Meeting: Montreal 2017

20 Oct 2017

Internet Censorship in Pakistan: Findings from 2014-2017

18 Oct 2017

Evidence of Internet Censorship during Catalonia's Independence Referendum

3 Oct 2017

Translations: CatalanFrenchSpanish

Internet Censorship in Iran: Network Measurement Findings from 2014-2017

28 Sep 2017

OONI Run: Let's fight internet censorship together!

27 Sep 2017

Measuring Internet Censorship in Cuba's ParkNets

28 Aug 2017

OONI Partner Gathering 2017

24 Jul 2017

#EgyptCensors: Evidence of recent censorship events in Egypt

19 Jun 2017

The State of Internet Censorship in Indonesia

23 May 2017

OONI at the CryptoRave 2017

12 May 2017

OONI at the Internet Freedom Festival & RightsCon 2017

4 Apr 2017

The State of Internet Censorship in Myanmar

29 Mar 2017

Examining internet blackouts through public data sources

28 Mar 2017

The State of Internet Censorship in Thailand

20 Mar 2017

New OONI Probe Mobile App: Measure Internet Censorship & Performance

9 Feb 2017

Kenya: Censorship-free internet?

27 Dec 2016

The State of Internet Censorship in Malaysia

20 Dec 2016

New OONI tests examine the blocking of WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger

15 Dec 2016

Ethiopia: Evidence of social media blocking and internet censorship

14 Dec 2016

OONI releases new Web UI: Run censorship tests from your web browser!

13 Dec 2016

The Gambia: Internet Shutdown during 2016 Presidential Election

9 Dec 2016

urandom.pcap: Belarus (finally) bans Tor

8 Dec 2016

OONI releases Lepidopter Raspberry Pi distribution

7 Dec 2016

OONI-dev meeting and hackathon 2016

22 Nov 2016

Egypt: Media censorship, Tor interference, HTTPS throttling and ads injections?

27 Oct 2016

OONI Hackathon: Join us to explore internet censorship!

25 Oct 2016

Zambia: Internet censorship during the 2016 general elections?

11 Oct 2016

Ethiopia: Internet Shutdown Amidst Recent Protests?

10 Aug 2016

Internet Access Disruption in Turkey - July 2016

19 Jul 2016

OONI releases new Web Connectivity test for detecting online censorship

3 Jun 2016

How Uganda blocked social media, again

17 May 2016

OONI Data Reveals How WhatsApp Was Blocked (Again) in Brazil

6 May 2016

Translations: Portuguese

EEEP and Greek Internet censorship

10 Jun 2015

Zambia, a country under Deep Packet Inspection

15 Jul 2013

Tab-Tab, Come in! Bypassing Internet blocking to categorize DPI devices

14 May 2013

Hadara Palestine

23 Apr 2012

T-Mobile USA Web Guard

21 Mar 2012