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⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show multiple online platforms are now restricted in #Gabon after the High Authority for Communication (HAC) announced the immediate suspension of social media in the country, citing its use to disseminate "inappropriate" content among other grievances
Amis au #Gabon, vous pouvez utiliser ce service de Netblocks pour aider à vérifier l’état de votre connexion Internet et les perturbations éventuelles des réseaux sociaux. https://api.webprobe.org
ℹ️ Note: Social media platform X (formerly Twitter) is currently experiencing international outages; incident not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering #TwitterDown
NetBlocksIf you are in #Russia, you can use this web app from Netblocks to help check the status of your internet access and platform restrictions https://api.webprobe.org/
If you are in #Russia, you can use this web app from Netblocks to help check the status of your internet access and platform restrictions https://api.webprobe.org/
⚠️ Confirmed: #Grenada has fallen almost entirely offline amid an island-wide internet disruption. Metrics indicate a gradual loss of connectivity over the course of several hours leading to the current blackout, with engineers working to resolve the issue 📉
ℹ️ Note: Social media platform X (formerly Twitter) is currently experiencing international outages; the incident comes during #SuperBowlLX and is not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering #TwitterDown
⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show a disruption to internet connectivity in western regions of #Ukraine after a series of Russian missile and drone attacks targeting energy infrastructure followed by emergency power shutdowns 🔌
⚠️ Update: With Kharkiv, #Ukraine, once again in the midst of power outages following Russian attacks on energy infrastructure, network data show a worsening cycle of disruptions corresponding to energy supply issues leaving residents without heat in freezing winter conditions
ℹ️ Note: Social media platform X (formerly Twitter) is currently experiencing international outages; incident not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering #TwitterDown
⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show a drop in internet connectivity in #Ukraine, also impacting #Moldova, corroborating energy company Ukrenergo's statement detailing a system-wide power emergency involving the disconnection of high-voltage international transmission lines 🔌
NetBlocks⚠️ Confirmed: Live metrics show #Iran is now in the midst of a nationwide internet blackout; the incident follows a series of escalating digital censorship measures targeting protests across the country and hinders the public's right to communicate at a critical…
🗓️ It's Friday evening in #Iran where internet remains heavily filtered 22 full days after the blackout as whitelisting and intermittent connectivity continue to limit Iranians' contact with the outside world. Networks are visible internationally but broadly restricted.
NetBlocks⚠️ Confirmed: Live metrics show #Iran is now in the midst of a nationwide internet blackout; the incident follows a series of escalating digital censorship measures targeting protests across the country and hinders the public's right to communicate at a critical…
🗓️ Exactly three weeks ago #Iran imposed a national internet blackout to obscure civilian killings. Whitelisting and heavy filtering are still in effect.
The incident is among the most severe of its kind on record, exceeded in duration only during civil war in Myanmar and Sudan.
NetBlocks⚠️ Confirmed: Live metrics show #Iran is now in the midst of a nationwide internet blackout; the incident follows a series of escalating digital censorship measures targeting protests across the country and hinders the public's right to communicate at a critical…
⚠️ Update: 20 full days after #Iran imposed a national internet blackout, most ordinary users still face heavy filtering and intermittent service under a whitelist system despite a significant increase in internationally visible networks and datacenters.
NetBlocks⚠️ Confirmed: Live metrics show #Iran is now in the midst of a nationwide internet blackout; the incident follows a series of escalating digital censorship measures targeting protests across the country and hinders the public's right to communicate at a critical…
⚠️ Update: With #Iran's internet shutdown approaching day 20, many networks are becoming visible internationally.
HOWEVER:
📵 No return to usual: Web still heavily filtered on a whitelist basis. 🔧 Circumvention still needed: The opening of protocols can enable new workarounds.
⚠️ Confirmed: Network data show a disruption to internet connectivity in Kharkiv, #Ukraine, following a combined UAV and heavy rocket artillery assault by Russia targeting energy infrastructure
NetBlocks⚠️ Confirmed: Live metrics show #Iran is now in the midst of a nationwide internet blackout; the incident follows a series of escalating digital censorship measures targeting protests across the country and hinders the public's right to communicate at a critical…
⚠️ Update: #Iran's internet blackout continues through its 18th day, obscuring the extent of a deadly crackdown on civilians.
Meanwhile, gaps in the filternet are being tightened to limit circumvention while whitelisted regime accounts promote the Islamic Republic's narrative.
NetBlocks⚠️ Confirmed: Network data show a decline in internet connectivity in #Louisiana with high impact to Monroe, attributed to power outages and damaged lines as freezing winter storms start to descend on the eastern US 🌨️ #LAwx
⚠️ Update: Further internet outages have been tracked in #Tennessee as Winter Storm Fern brings subzero temperatures, with snow and ice accumulation snapping tree branches and power lines, leaving over 300,000 residents without electricity and communications 🧊 #tnwx
NetBlocks⚠️ Confirmed: Network data show a decline in internet connectivity in #Louisiana with high impact to Monroe, attributed to power outages and damaged lines as freezing winter storms start to descend on the eastern US 🌨️ #LAwx
⚠️ Update: Metrics show a steady decline in internet connectivity in parts of Tennessee and Mississippi as Winter Storm Fern encroaches more of the eastern United States, with outages attributed to direct impacts of the storm on power and telecoms infrastructure ❄️ #tnwx #mswx
NetBlocks⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show a significant decline to internet connectivity in #Greenland with high impact to capital Nuuk. The incident comes amid reports of a city-wide power outage attributed by energy company Nukissiorfiit to an "accident" 🔌
ℹ️ Update: Internet connectivity in Greenland has returned to ordinary levels after the reconnection of electricity, following an overnight disruption to power transmission lines amid strong winds that left capital city #Nuuk in the dark; incident duration ~6 hours 📈
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