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⚠️ 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 🔌
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🗓️ 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.
⚠️ 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.
⚠️ 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.
⚠️ 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
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🗓️ 17 days after #Iran introduced an internet blackout to mask a deadly crackdown:
- minimal whitelisted service available to some users
- circumvention allows messages to get through
- brief connectivity spikes give false impression of wider restoration
The shutdown continues.
⚠️ 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" 🔌
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⚠️ Update: #Iran's internet blackout continues in its third week despite a brief momentary restoration of international connectivity around hour 375. Online platforms are occasionally whitelisted and some users have been able to tunnel out over the last couple of days.
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⚠️ Update: #Iran remains in the midst of a national internet blackout in its third week at hour 348 with only a slight rise in overall connectivity and tunneled users. There are indications of an attempt to generate false traffic and manufacture narratives of a wider restoration.
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⚠️ Update: #Iran has now been under a national internet blackout for two full weeks. At hour 336, connectivity levels continue to flatline with only a slight rise at the backbone supplying regime-whitelisted networks, while a few users are now able to tunnel to the outside world.
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⚠️ Confirmed: A major internet disruption has been registered in #Indonesia with high impact to leading providers IndiHome and Telkomsel, corroborating user reports of difficulty getting online 📉
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⚠️ Update: With #Iran's internet blackout now past hour 280, the nation of over 90 million remains cut off for another day leaving friends and family unable to check in with loved ones. Meanwhile, traffic on select platforms points to an emergent strategy of whitelisting.
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⚠️ Update: As of internet shutdown hour 240, traffic levels have fallen after a brief, heavily filtered restoration of select Google and messaging services in #Iran. During this time, some Iranians were able to give updates detailing the severity of the crisis on the ground.
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ℹ️ Update: While ordinary internet connectivity in #Iran remains disrupted at hour 238, traffic data indicate a significant return to some online services including Google, suggesting that heavily filtered access has been enabled, corroborating user reports of partial restoration
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ℹ️ Update: Network data show a partial restoration of internet connectivity in #Uganda, though many users remain offline. Service was cut on the 13th and elections were held with the opposition detained, some voting machines disconnected, and ballots stuffed per reports.
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🗓️ 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.
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⚠️ 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.
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⚠️ 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
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⚠️ 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
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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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ℹ️ Update: Internet connectivity in #Greenland remains diminished due to an ongoing power cut, as initial attempts to repair transmission lines from Buksefjord hydroelectric plant fail amid strong winds, triggering a transfer to emergency power per energy company Nukissiorfiit.
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⚠️ 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
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⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show a decline in internet connectivity in Sumy, #Ukraine; the incident comes as Russia launches drone and missile attacks on energy infrastructure, despite ongoing peace talks in Abu Dhabi
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ℹ️ Note: Social media platform X (formerly Twitter) is currently experiencing international outages; incident not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering #TwitterDown
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🗓 Two weeks ago today, #Iran was cut off from the world by an extremist regime as the people went out on the streets to call for change.
With the digital blackout silencing Iranians' voices, authorities perpetrated one of the deadliest crackdowns in modern history.
⏱️ Over 300 hours have passed since #Iran imposed a national internet blackout to hide atrocities. Meanwhile, the regime uses whitelisted networks and places op-eds to shape opinion abroad.
Attempts to obscure the truth will be documented in real time: The world is watching.
⚠️ Update: With the #Iran internet blackout now spanning its twelfth day, metrics show that national connectivity remains minimal. In recent days, the filternet has occasionally allowed messages through, suggesting that the regime is testing a more heavily filtered intranet.
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⚠️ Update: Despite the restoration of connectivity in #Uganda after a widespread internet shutdown spanning five days during the election period, live metrics show that multiple social media and messaging platforms remain restricted by authorities
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ℹ️ Update: With internet connectivity now largely restored in #Uganda after elections held under a widespread internet shutdown, metrics confirm that the exact same shutdown and social media filtering schedule and mechanism used during the 2021 elections have again been deployed.
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⚠️ Update: Internet connectivity continues to flatline in #Iran despite a minor short-lived bump in access earlier today, when new reports of atrocities emerged.
As the shutdown enters day ten, confusion surrounds whether the regime intends to restore service soon, or at all.