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⚠️ Update: #Iran's internet blackout has now passed the 60-hour mark.
The incident leaves the people cut off from the world without access to sources of information vital for safety and situational awareness, and out of touch with loved ones abroad as the conflict escalates.
⚠️ Update: #Iran has now been cut off from the world for 36 hours with metrics showing connectivity at 1% of ordinary levels.
The internet blackout imposed on Saturday morning continues to limit Iranians' access to information as the war with the US and Israel widens regionally.
⚠️ Update: Metrics show #Iran has been offline for 12 hours after the regime imposed a nationwide internet blackout amid US and Israeli military strikes.
While most countries work to stay connected in times of international conflict, Iran has again silenced its own population.
⚠️ Confirmed: Live metrics show a disruption to internet access in parts of #Iran including Tehran with connectivity at 54% of ordinary levels. The incident comes as the US and Israel target the regime with military strikes and will limit visibility into events on the ground.
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⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show internet connectivity in the Dominican Republic has fallen to 54% as the result of a major power outage arising from a fault in the National Interconnected Electricity System (SENI), the second such incident recorded in recent months.
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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
⚠️ 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 📉
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⚠️ 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 🔌
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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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🗓️ 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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⚠️ Update: #Iran's internet blackout has now surpassed 48 hours, leaving its population of 90 million out of touch as war spreads.
Shutdowns are a go-to tactic for the regime, with the previous instance in January lasting several weeks and masking severe human rights violations.
⚠️ Update: #Iran's internet blackout has now passed the 24-hour mark with national connectivity flatlining at 1% of ordinary levels.
The measure limits civic engagement at a key moment for the country's future after the killing of Ayatollah Khamenei in US and Israeli airstrikes.
⚠️ Confirmed: Network data show #Iran is now in the midst of a near-total internet blackout with national connectivity at 4% of ordinary levels. The incident comes amid US and Israeli combat operations and matches measures used during last year's war with Israel.
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⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show a decline in internet connectivity in parts of #Massachusetts as authorities issue a travel ban in multiple counties; the incident comes as Winter Storm Hernando brings down power and telecoms lines, leaving thousands of subscribers cut off 🔌 #MAwx
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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
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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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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/
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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
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⚠️ 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
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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.