Telegram restricted in Iraq over personal data leaks
Network data confirm the restriction of messaging platform Telegram across most of Iraq as of Sunday 6 August 2023, excluding the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region. The measure comes as the …
Internet disruptions registered during school exams
This report documents nation-scale internet disruptions during the 2023 school exam calendar, along with policy observations and recommendations geared toward countering the practice of internet shutdowns that are intended to …
Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake
Network data confirm the restriction of Twitter on multiple internet providers in Turkey as of Wednesday 8 February 2023. The incident comes as authorities raise concerns over disinformation online, although …
Iran disrupts mobile internet access during university entrance exams
Network data confirm the restriction of internet connectivity in Iran on the morning of Thursday 19 January 2023 for some three hours. Metrics corroborate user reports of a disruption to …
TikTok restricted in Jordan amid fuel price protests
Network data confirm the restriction of social video platform TikTok in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan on multiple internet providers on Friday 16 December 2022. The incident comes amid protests …
Internet disrupted in Iran amid protests over death of Mahsa Amini
Network data from NetBlocks confirm a near-total disruption disruption to internet service in parts of Kurdistan province in west Iran from the evening of Monday 19 September 2022. The regional …
Widespread internet outage registered in Iran amid reports of fire at datacenter
Network data from NetBlocks confirm a major disruption to internet connectivity in Iran from the morning of Friday 4 March 2022. Metrics show the loss of connectivity across multiple providers, …
Internet connectivity knocked out in Yemen after airstrike
Network data from NetBlocks confirm a nation-scale collapse of internet connectivity in Yemen on Friday 21 January 2022 from around 1 a.m. local time. The incident came amid reports of …
Energy crisis in Lebanon leads to widening telecoms blackouts
Network data from NetBlocks confirm the loss of internet service in parts of Beirut, Lebanon from the evening of Saturday 15 January 2022. The intermittent disruptions to connectivity follow an …
Internet disruption registered in Iran amid water protests
Network data from NetBlocks confirm a subnational disruption to internet service in parts of Iran from the morning of Thursday 25 November 2021, ongoing for close to two days. The …
Mobile internet disrupted in Iran amid Khuzestan water protests
Network data from NetBlocks confirm a significant regional disruption to mobile internet service in Iran beginning Thursday 15 July 2021, ongoing almost a week later as of Wednesday 21 July …
Internet disruption registered in Iran following days of outages in southeast
Network data from the NetBlocks Internet Observatory confirm disruption to internet connectivity in Iran on the evening of Saturday 27 February 2021 from 10:30 p.m. up until midnight local time. …
Internet disrupted in Iran on anniversary of fuel protests
Network data from the NetBlocks Internet Observatory confirm a partial disruption to internet service in Iran between 7:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. local time (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. UTC) …
Internet disrupted in Iran as thousands gather to mourn singer Shajarian
Network data from the NetBlocks Internet Observatory confirm disruptions to internet service in Tehran from 7:00 p.m. local time (3:30 p.m. UTC) on Thursday 8 October 2020. Metrics show an …
Internet connectivity in Lebanon impacted following blast
Network data from the NetBlocks internet observatory confirm that internet connectivity in Lebanon has significantly fallen following reports of an explosion on Tuesday 4 August 2020, with the outage ongoing …
Facebook Live streams restricted in Jordan during Teachers’ Syndicate protests
Network data from the NetBlocks internet observatory confirm that Facebook Live video streaming features have been restricted in Jordan on multiple providers on Wednesday 29 July 2020. Real-time metrics show …
Internet disrupted in Iran amid regional protests
Network data from the NetBlocks internet observatory have identified internet restrictions in Khuzestan Province, southwest Iran from 10:00 p.m. local time Thursday 16 July 2020. The incident was registered as …
Internet in Iran disrupted due to knock-on effect of power cut in Armenia
Network data from the NetBlocks internet observatory have identified a series of network outages in Iran from just after 8:00 p.m. local time (3:30 p.m. UTC) Wednesday 8 July 2020. …
Wikipedia Farsi blocked in Iran as coronavirus fears spread
Network data from the NetBlocks internet observatory confirm that Iran has blocked access to the Farsi (Persian) language edition of the Wikipedia online encylopedia as of Monday, 2 March 2020. …
Internet disruption registered across Iran
Network data from the NetBlocks internet observatory confirm that multiple telecommunication networks in Iran have been disconnected on the morning of Tuesday, 3 March 2020. Confirmed: Internet disruption registered across …