In addition to the ongoing shutdown of the Internet in Iran, IODA sees evidence of damage to critical Internet or power infrastructure through simultaneous drops in Routing Announcements across various networks. For example, at ~6:00 PM local time today we see 5 networks show simultaneous drops.

People in #Iran continue to suffer from the effects of an internet shutdown. According to @ioda.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy, BGP is still active, a sign that some people with so called whitelisted SIM cards can still use the internet. This allows the mullah regime to continue sending X messages.

Freedom.gov in an earlier version: web.archive.org/web/20051130...

Internet connectivity down in Iran as airstrikes hit the country. Traffic volume dropped at 07:06 UTC and then again at 11:47 UTC with minimal connectivity remaining. The country had a partial restoration since Jan-27 following a complete shutdown in Jan-8.

Unfortunately, people in #Iran are familiar with internet shutdowns. In the current state of emergency, this is tragic because people can no longer obtain news or communicate with their loved ones. The shutdown began at the same time as the air strikes at around 7 UTC, according to data from IODA.

Along with the air strikes on #Iran, the internet in the country is also severely restricted or completely inaccessible. This means that people in Iran have limited access to information about what is happening. Data is public from @ioda.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

Internet in Iran continues to be limited following a partial restoration. Since Jan-27, we're seeing traffic volumes at 58% of what they were prior to the Jan-8 shutdown. During the day, traffic curves appear erratic, indicating disconnections. #DigitalBlackoutIran #IranRevolution2026

Iran's shutdown is now 15 days and counting. Small amounts of service have been restored in recent days. #DigitalBlackoutIran #IranRevoIution2026 State telecom TIC (A49666) re-established many of its lost connections with outside providers, such as GBI (AS200612) at 22:02 UTC on Jan-22.

Internet of Iran continues to experience temporary partial restorations of service before reverting back to a shutdown for everyone but a few privileged individuals. #DigitalBlackoutlran #IranRevolution2026

Amazon’s Ring doorbell camera system won the “Worst in Show” for privacy at #CES2026 for “doubling down on privacy invasion and supporting the misconception that more surveillance always makes us safer,” EFF’s Cindy Cohn told @apnews.com.

Sudden drop in IPv6 traffic to Iran at 11:49 UTC today (Jan-8) as the country's govt continues to selectively block internet access in an effort to staunch a growing protest movement. #IranProtests

Thrilled to share my latest article: "Keeping Syria connected during civil war." A compelling, years-in-the-making story of "Mahmoud," a Syria Telecom network engineer who was on the front lines of the conflict—literally—to keep the country's internet running. syriauntold.com/2025/12/27/k...

Kommentierte für die Deutschlandfunk-Sender (nicht nur) die Debatte um #Klarnamenpflicht in Folge der Forderung von Andreas Voßkuhle. www.deutschlandfunk.de/kommentar-de...

This is the first time Macron has retaliated so angrily against the provocations of his alleged "friend" Donald Trump. The policy of appeasement and flattery is breaking down.

In a major escalation against the EU, alongside civil society representatives the Trump Administration sanctions former Commissioner Breton for work he did in official capacity ↘️ www.state.gov/releases/off...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth “did not comply” with the Pentagon’s policies when he used a private messaging app to discuss airstrikes by U.S. forces in Yemen earlier this year, the department’s inspector general said in a report released on Thursday. Here’s what else we learned from the report.

Hello World! DW is dedicating its first Bluesky post to this great topic, which is of course particularly close to my heart. A totally useful app in this day and age. Many thanks to everyone involved at DW, as well as to @vinifortuna.com and the Outline team. #InternetFreedom

Deutsche Welle is blocked in many countries. BigTech bans apps from their stores so that they can do business in autocracies. DW is responding with ‘DW - Access’. It circumvents censorship, can be installed directly, and can be used during an internet shutdown. corporate.dw.com/en/dw-access...

Amazon has blamed today's massive outage on the "DNS resolution of the DynamoDB API endpoint in US-EAST-1." @kentik.bsky.social observed a complete drop-off in traffic to this particular AWS service beginning at 06:55 UTC. Thousands of services around the world were impacted.

Since yesterday, the Taliban in Afghanistan have shut down the internet. Without the internet, many people are severely restricted in their daily lives. @ioda.live is a reliable source for tracking internet shutdowns. The measurement data is completely transparent and therefore quotable.

The shutdown is still ongoing!

Blackout in Afghanistan as Taliban orders internet service downed at 12:38 UTC (5:08pm local). Earlier this month, Taliban banned fiber optic internet in a rural province to “prevent immorality.” This shutdown follows brief national outage minutes earlier from 11:33 to 11:53 UTC.

What is the impact? ...from Putin's perspective. What comes next?

⚡️ Today, we published a report documenting the shutdowns during the student uprising in #Bangladesh last year. 🔗 ooni.org/post/2025-ba... Together with Digitally Right, we compiled a comprehensive timeline of blocks, outages, and political events that happened in the 22 days of the uprising.

LEO satellite operator Starlink currently experiencing a total outage beginning at 19:13 UTC today. #Starlinkdown No word yet on cause of the outage.

Satellite #Internet provider Starlink is currently experiencing a network-wide outage. They have acknowledged the outage, but have not yet provided information on a cause. x.com/Starlink/sta...

Aserbaidschan verschärft das Mediengesetz erneut: Ausländischen Redaktionen droht Schließung, Presseagenturen brauchen 20 lokale Abos – in einem Land ohne unabhängige Medien. RSF fordert: Gesetz zurücknehmen, Journalist*innen freilassen! #Pressefreiheit #Azerbaijan

⚡️ BREAKING: Zelensky announces next prime minister, launches government reshuffle. "I have proposed that Yuliia Svyrydenko lead the Government of Ukraine and significantly renew its work," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

For more information on the situation in Iran, follow @ammir.bsky.social and his colleagues at @filter.watch: bsky.app/profile/filt...

To put this in context, today's drop is in addition to the drop in traffic levels observed on June 13th.

As we hear reports of mobile Internet shutdown in Iran, IODA measurements are showing loss of connectivity on mobile networks IranCell (AS44244) and RighTel (AS57218). Follow connectivity in near realtime […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

TikTok has breached EU rules for failing to disclose sufficient information about advertising on the platform, the European Commission said today.

Teile der Trump Regierung nutzten einen israelischen Signal Clone mit eingebauter Backdoor für sensible Chats. Hierüber wurden komplette Chatverläufe unverschlüsselt an Server in der AWS Cloud übertragen. Wer welche Informationen abgegriffen hat ist unbekannt. Das war vermutlich nur der Anfang...

Despite misleading marketing, Israeli company TeleMessage, used by Trump officials, can access plaintext chat logs. My findings are based on TM SGNL's source code, and they are corroborated by hacked data micahflee.com/despite-misl...

Only a limited amount of information is coming out of #Myanmar following the heavy #earthquake. Publicly available measurement data from @radar.cloudflare.com shows a significant drop in internet traffic in the country. This indicates that parts of the infrastructure has been destroyed.

There is not much information from #Myanmar after the #earthquake with the epicenter near the 2nd largest city, Mandalay. The internet is partly disrupted. This is shown by data from @ioda.live, @radar.cloudflare.com, e.g. from the provider MPT. Internet restrictions makes it harder to report.

In den Koalitionsverhandlungen fordert die Union, das #Informationsfreiheitsgesetz abzuschaffen. Verhandlungsführer bei diesem Thema ist ausgerechnet Philipp Amthor. Durch das besagte Gesetz wurden Dokumente von Amthors Augustus-Intelligence-Skandal öffentlich. #IFG netzpolitik.org/2025/koaliti...

Of course, @signal.org is secure, even if you join a chat from a 🇷🇺 network, because it has a proofed end-to-end-encryption. Interesting that the US Gov is using Signal. It was founded with the support of the @opentechfund.bsky.social. One of the USAGM organizations whose funding Trump has frozen.

🚨NEW REPORT: first forensic confirmation of #Paragon mercenary spyware infections in #Italy... Known targets: Activists & journalists. We also found deployments around the world. Including ... #Canada? And a lot more... Thread on our @citizenlab.ca investigation 1/ citizenlab.ca/2025/03/a-fi...

@opentechfund.bsky.social President: Once we lose a user from one of our VPNs, particularly in China, it is almost impossible to get them back. This has clear consequences for any future U.S. government effort to reach people behind authoritarian firewalls. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

#Turkey starts blocking platforms such as YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and X. Data from @ooni.org indicates that the first internet providers (not all!) in the country are implementing the blocking at around 5 a.m. today. The mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoğlu, was arrested in Turkey today.

Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa tells us about losing democracy

"European Parliament urges lawmakers to only use encrypted messages after China hacks" www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Da bin ich auf jeden Fall dabei. weact.campact.de/petitions/sa...

Investigating the latest subsea cable cut in the Baltic (h/t @auonsson.bsky.social) Based on BGP, appears that Latvian State Radio and Television Centre's cable (AS8194) cable was cut at 00:45 UTC (2:45am local) on Sunday morning when it lost transit from Arelion. www.lsm.lv/raksts/zinas...

President Trump picks Media Research Center founder L. Brent Bozell III — who wrote a letter on behalf of his son, a convicted Jan. 6 rioter who assaulted law enforcement during the Capitol riot — to run the U.S. Agency for Global Media.

🚨 Tiktok went offline in the US last night at 03:30 UTC (10:30pm ET) 🚨 Graphic based on @kentik.bsky.social aggregate traffic stats. #tiktokban

#TikTok has now disappeared from the US Appstore. This is shown by data from applecensorship.com. The deadline for TikTok to hand over its business to a US company expired today.