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Maria Xynou

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OONI @ooni.org · 28/09/2026
This week, we're excited to be at CIPESA's Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa, one of Africa's leading digital rights conferences! 😍 Interested in measuring internet censorship? Come meet us at the Digital Reality Walk on September 30 & October 1 to learn how to use OONI tools! 🐙 #FIFAfrica26
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OONI @ooni.org · 18/09/2026
Heading to the Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2026? 😃 Join us for the IMC Hackathon and use Internet measurement data to solve real-world challenges! 🙌 📅 October 12, 2026 📌 Karlsruhe, Germany 🗒️ Register: conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2026/eve... ✨️ #IMC2026 #hackathon
IMC 2026 Hackathon
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OONI @ooni.org · 17/09/2026
Wow! 😲 Yesterday, after years of blocking, #Venezuela started *unblocking* several news media websites...! 🥳 Our friends at VEsinFiltro are posting detailed updates: bloqueos.vesinfiltro.org ✊️ In #Venezuela? Help measure the (un)blocking of websites with OONI Probe: run.ooni.org/v2/10375 🐙
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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I need some real solidarity. On Friday, I published this article about why Zuckerberg should resign. It’s being throttled on Meta products and I’ve had several attempts to hijack my fb acct. Please repost this article, esp on your Meta accounts. #ZuckMustGo www.theguardian.com/technology/c...
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It’s time for Mark Zuckerberg to resign from Meta | Joan Donovan
The CEO is the throughline in a history of billion-dollar blunders that have caused real harm, culminating in last week’s settlement
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OONI @ooni.org · 02/09/2026
Are you attending @teamcommunity.bsky.social's Global Gathering in Portugal this week? 😀 Join us for a session on "Strengthening Rapid Response Efforts to Censorship Events" 🐙 📌 When? September 5th at 13:30 📌 Where? Booth 22, Circumvention Tech Village wiki.digitalrights.community/index.php?ti...
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Maria Xynou @agrabeli6.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Interested in shaping the strategic direction of one of the world's most important privacy projects? There's an exciting opportunity to join the @torproject.org Board of Directors! 😍🧅 Apply by September 21, 2026! Learn more: torproject.org/about/jobs/b... ✨
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Tor Project @torproject.org · 26/08/2026
Help shape the future of privacy! Check out two new opportunities: torproject.org/about/jobs/ 🎨 UX Lead: guide our design team towards more intuitive human-centered products. 🧭 Board of Directors: help provide strategic direction and governance for Tor’s mission. Apply by September 21.
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The Tor Project | Privacy & Freedom Online
Defend yourself against tracking and surveillance. Circumvent censorship.
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Tor Project @torproject.org · 17/08/2026
The results are in: Our first crowdfunding round in partnership with @fundingthecommons.bsky.social raised more than $200k for projects working across privacy, censorship circumvention, and secure communications. Full download here👉: blog.torproject.org/funding-inte... @web3privacy.eurosky.social
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Funding internet freedom together: results from our first participatory funding round | Tor Project
The Tor Project's first participatory funding campaign raised more than $200,000 for internet freedom projects and taught us valuable lessons about community support, project visibility, and sustainin...
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OONI @ooni.org · 30/07/2026
‼️ Over the last few days, #Guinea started blocking access to social media… again. OONI data shows the blocking of Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube on Orange Guinée (AS37461) by means of TLS interference. Learn more: explorer.ooni.org/findings/106... 🐙 #ooni #censorship #opendata
OONI data on the blocking of Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube in Guinea.
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OONI @ooni.org · 29/07/2026
‼️ Saudi Arabia just blocked Tinder explorer.ooni.org/findings/305... Today, OONI data shows that Tinder started being blocked on Mobily (AS35819) by means of TLS interference. We were alerted of this block through our new Censorship Alert System, an internal prototype we're testing. 🙏🐙 #ooni
OONI data on the blocking of Tinder in Saudi Arabia
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OONI @ooni.org · 28/07/2026
According to WHO, access to accurate health information is essential for informed reproductive healthcare decisions. 🙏 Restricting access to that information can undermine people's ability to obtain timely, safe care and exercise their reproductive rights. ooni.org/post/2026-it... #ooni #opendata
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OONI @ooni.org · 28/07/2026
❗️Starting in mid-February 2026, at least 6 ISPs in #Italy started blocking access to the Women on Web and Women Help Women reproductive health websites. OONI data shows bogon IP responses, NXDOMAIN errors, and DNS responses directing users to block pages. ooni.org/post/2026-it... #ooni #opendata
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OONI @ooni.org · 28/07/2026
🔴 Italy Blocks Reproductive Health Websites Women on Web (WoW) and Women Help Women (WHW) ooni.org/post/2026-it... In collaboration w/ WoW, we co-published a new report documenting the blocking of the WoW and WHW websites in #Italy based on OONI data. #ooni #censorship #reproductivehealth
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OONI @ooni.org · 16/07/2026
We're excited to share that we've revamped our Get Involved page and launched a new OONI Resources hub! 😍🐙 • Get Involved: ooni.org/get-involved/ • Resources: ooni.org/support/reso... We've made it easier to discover training materials, research documentation, localization opportunities & more! ✨️
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OONI @ooni.org · 09/07/2026
Wondering how researchers, journalists, and human rights advocates use OONI data? 🐙 We published a new “Citations & Press” page highlighting OONI’s coverage in the press, as well as citations in research and advocacy publications: ooni.org/about/citati... ✨ #ooni #opendata #censorship
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web3privacy.info @web3privacy.info · 07/07/2026
Neo-cypherpunk Summit presents @hellais.bsky.social x @ooni.org, ex-@torproject.org, GlobaLeaks. How the the global intrnet censorship landscape has changed, and what are the new challenges and opportunities to use rich technical data to fight it. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q39U...
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Measuring the Internet to fight censorship / Arturo Filastro, OONI
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OONI @ooni.org · 06/07/2026
From Heuristics to Anonymous Credentials: Assessing OONI's Approach to Bad Measurements ooni.org/post/2026-fa... In our latest blog post, we share: • New heuristics & strategies for mitigating faulty measurements • An evaluation of the effectiveness of our new Anonymous Credential System 🐙✨ #ooni
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OONI @ooni.org · 03/07/2026
⚖️ Kenya's High Court ruled the government cannot arbitrarily block websites, striking down the Cybercrimes Act clause behind past shutdowns. The winning petition drew on OONI's evidence of Telegram blocking during KCSE exams. 🌐 📄 Our report: ooni.org/post/2025-ke...
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OONI @ooni.org · 30/06/2026
Although the impact estimated in our study is already substantial, our methodology is a lower bound, meaning that the true extent of the impact is likely higher than our reported figures. Learn more: ooni.org/post/2026-la... We thank OONI Probe users in #Spain for contributing measurements. 🙏
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Collateral Damage of IP-Based Blocking During LALIGA Football Streaming in Spain: Evidence from OONI Measurements
This report documents the widespread collateral damage caused by IP-based blocking during LALIGA football match broadcasts in Spain, based on OONI data and DNS scans.
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OONI @ooni.org · 30/06/2026
OONI data from #Spain shows that blocking implementation varied across ISPs. Blocking by most ISPs was largely confined to LALIGA match time windows, with minimal evidence of spillover outside broadcast periods. ooni.org/post/2026-la...
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OONI @ooni.org · 30/06/2026
‼️ We also detected TLS Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks on Digi Mobil (AS57269), raising privacy and security concerns. OONI data from Digi Mobil in #Spain reveals that 7,334 unique IPs in 14 ASNs, hosting a total of 10,759 domain names, were affected by TLS MitM attacks. ooni.org/post/2026-la...
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OONI @ooni.org · 30/06/2026
At least 36 infrastructure and hosting providers were impacted by the IP-level blocking observed during LALIGA match broadcasts. OONI data from #Spain reveals the blocking of 7,441 unique IP addresses belonging to 36 organizations (e.g. Amazon, Cloudflare, Alibaba Cloud). ooni.org/post/2026-la...
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OONI @ooni.org · 30/06/2026
During most LALIGA broadcasts on multiple networks in #Spain, blocking just 4–20 IP addresses in a 1-hour window led to significant collateral damage, affecting over 400,000 unique domains. ooni.org/post/2026-la...
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OONI @ooni.org · 30/06/2026
At least 5.8% of the internet’s most popular domains were found to be blocked in #Spain. Out of 9.2 million domains tested, we found at least 554,510 domains blocked (including @amnesty.org) at some point in time in Spain during the LALIGA football match broadcasts. ooni.org/post/2026-la...
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OONI @ooni.org · 30/06/2026
🔴 New report: Collateral Damage of IP-Based Blocking During LALIGA Football Streaming in Spain: Evidence from OONI Measurements ooni.org/post/2026-la... Our latest report documents widespread collateral damage caused by IP blocks in #Spain during LALIGA football broadcasts over the past 6 months.
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OONI @ooni.org · 26/06/2026
🎉 We're excited to announce the new OONI Probe Desktop App for Windows and macOS! ooni.org/post/2026-ne... New features include a new dashboard, a new "OONI News" section with censorship reports, support for OONI Run links, and more! ✨ Download OONI Probe Desktop today: ooni.org/install/ 🐙 #ooni
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OONI @ooni.org · 19/06/2026
📢 Only 15 hours left to support OONI in the internet freedom quadratic funding campaign: internetfreedom.torproject.org/projects/ooni/ 🐙✨ Every contribution helps. Even small donations can have an outsized impact. Thank you for your support 🙏❤️ #FundInternetFreedom #ooni
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web3privacy.info @web3privacy.info · 18/06/2026
Freedom is strongest when it's supported by you. @agrabeli6.bsky.social x Director of Strategic Engagement in @ooni.org on why internet censorship monitoring funding matters. Donate to @torproject.org ecosystem now: internetfreedom.torproject.org/projects/ooni/ internetfreedom.torproject.org
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OONI @ooni.org · 18/06/2026
‼️ Two days ago, #India began blocking access to Telegram across multiple networks amid concerns over exam fraud. OONI data shows that ISPs in India are implementing the block through DNS tampering, as well as TLS and IP-level interference. Learn more: explorer.ooni.org/findings/321... 🐙 #ooni
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Doug Madory @eldomador.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
When Local Blocks Go Global: The India-Telegram BGP Incident In this post, I dig into the leaked hijack intended to block Telegram in India — the latest intentional, but also accidental BGP mishap, in which a domestic block escapes, disrupting a service worldwide. www.kentik.com/blog/when-lo...
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When Local Blocks Go Global: The India-Telegram BGP Incident
Yesterday’s leak of a BGP hijack intended to block Telegram in India is the latest routing mishap best described as intentional, but also accidental — a pattern dating back to Pakistan Telecom’s infam...
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Doug Madory @eldomador.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The BGP hijack may be over, but Telegram is still getting blocked in India according to measurements from @ooni.org: explorer.ooni.org/chart/mat?pr...
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Doug Madory @eldomador.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
As part of an effort to block Telegram, AS18101 of India hijacked BGP routes of the messaging service — with limited propagation due to route filtering. The red sliver in the dotted box represents the propagation of AS18101's hijack — not nothing but RPKI ROV helped to limit the impact.
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OONI @ooni.org · 11/06/2026
Beyond ISP-level blocks, our analysis of OONI data also identified cases where Women on Web’s website was inaccessible due to corporate firewall filtering in several countries. Learn more in our report: ooni.org/post/2026-wo... We thank OONI Probe users globally for contributing measurements. ❤️🐙
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OONI @ooni.org · 11/06/2026
Since February 2020, access to Women on Web has been blocked on multiple networks in #Spain. Although the Spanish Supreme Court ordered the partial unblocking of Women on Web in October 2022, OONI data indicates that block remains in place on several networks. ooni.org/post/2026-wo...
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OONI @ooni.org · 11/06/2026
OONI data shows that access to Women on Web has been blocked in #SouthKorea since January 2019. Unlike in other countries, where blocking is limited to Women on Web's main website, South Korea also blocks additional Women on Web domains created to circumvent censorship. ooni.org/post/2026-wo...
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OONI @ooni.org · 11/06/2026
OONI data suggests that access to Women on Web may have been blocked in the #Philippines as early as January 2025 on some networks. The block is primarily implemented at the DNS level. ooni.org/post/2026-wo...
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OONI @ooni.org · 11/06/2026
Access to Women on Web has been blocked in #Türkiye since 2019. On most networks in Türkiye, OONI data shows that the connection was reset or timed out after the ClientHello message during the TLS handshake. ooni.org/post/2026-wo...
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OONI @ooni.org · 11/06/2026
Out of the 7 countries which present signs of Women on Web blocking, #Iran presented the strongest signal because the block is both automatically confirmed and visible on most tested networks. ooni.org/post/2026-wo...
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OONI @ooni.org · 11/06/2026
Abortion Access Denied: Investigating the Global Censorship of Women on Web ooni.org/post/2026-wo... We joined forces w/ @womenonweb.bsky.social to investigate the blocking of their domains around the world based on OONI data. 🧵 Learn more 👇 #ooni #censorship #opendata
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web3privacy.info @web3privacy.info · 10/06/2026
Freedom is strongest when it's supported by you. Ricochet Refresh team on why supporting Peer-to-peer encrypted instant messaging & @torproject.org ecosystem matters. Donate & protect rights online: internetfreedom.torproject.org/projects/ric... #FundInternetFreedom
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web3privacy.info @web3privacy.info · 05/06/2026
Freedom is strongest when it's supported by you. @evacide.bsky.social , Director of Cybersecurity at @eff.org shares her opinion on why @torproject ecosystem funding matters. Donate & protect rights online: internetfreedom.torproject.org
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web3privacy.info @web3privacy.info · 04/06/2026
Some questions are difficult to ask out loud. Around the world, people use privacy tools to search, learn, connect, and find community safely online. Support @torproject.org ecosystem protecting your freedom: internetfreedom.torproject.org
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Blueprint for Free Speech @bpfreespeech.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Fear breeds silence. Silencing is the unravelling of democracy Join the campaign, and help sustain the future of internet freedom 👉️ buff.ly/23vIZar #FundInternetFreedom @torproject.org @web3privacy.info @openarchive.bsky.social @ooni.org @unredacted.org @openarchive.bsky.social buff.ly/T78d4um
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OONI @ooni.org · 29/05/2026
❗️For the first time in 3 months, we're seeing a spike in OONI measurements coming from #Iran in recent days. 🙏 The absence of OONI data also clearly reflects the two internet connectivity shutdowns observed in #Iran since the start of the year. explorer.ooni.org/chart/mat?pr...
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Cloudflare Radar @radar.cloudflare.com · 27/05/2026
Cloudflare Radar data confirms early indications of a partial Internet restoration in Iran, nearly three months after the shutdown began. Traffic spikes and DNS queries have risen, but network activity is currently just 40% of pre-shutdown levels. blog.cloudflare.com/iran-interne...
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Iran's Internet is partially restored, Cloudflare Radar data shows
Cloudflare Radar data confirms early indications of a partial Internet restoration in Iran, nearly three months after the shutdown began. Traffic spikes and DNS queries have risen, but network activit...
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Doug Madory @eldomador.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
🚨Update on the partial restoration of internet in Iran. It has been 24hrs+ since service started coming back in Iran. In that time, traffic levels peaked at 41% of what we saw prior to Jan 8th, which is also below the Jan 27-Feb 28 partial restoration. #DigitalBlackOutIran‌
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web3privacy.info @web3privacy.info · 26/05/2026
Freedom is strongest when it's supported by you. @torproject.org co-founder Roger Dingledine shares why Ecosystem Funding Matters 📢 Support whistleblowing platforms, free access to internet, censorship measurement & beyond: internetfreedom.torproject.org #FundInternetFreedom
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OONI @ooni.org · 26/05/2026
Spain blocks access to reproductive rights website Women on Web explorer.ooni.org/findings/348... Our latest post documents the blocking of @womenonweb.bsky.social in #Spain based on OONI data -- ongoing since 2020 despite a court order requiring “partial unblocking”. #ooni #opendata #censorship
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web3privacy.info @web3privacy.info · 25/05/2026
Freedom is strongest when it's supported by you. @naomibrockwell.bsky.social from www.ludlowinstitute.org shares her opinion on why @torproject.org ecosystem funding matters. Donate & protect rights online: internetfreedom.torproject.org #FundInternetFreedom
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Tor Project @torproject.org · 20/05/2026
"During protests, unrest, and political crackdowns, internet censorship has become a tool of control...to block information...to isolate people..." Meet the open-source projects working to change that: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6Sb... @unredacted.org @web3privacy.info @osservatorionessuno.org
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Sometimes Freedom Looks Like a Message Arriving | the Tor Project + Funding the Commons pwrd by W3PN
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