[ooni-talk] Nigeria report: Measuring internet censorship during 2019 elections

[Maria Xynou]

Hello,

Today OONI and Nigeria's Paradigm Initiative jointly published a
research report examining information controls during Nigeria's 2019
elections.

We have published two versions of this report:

* Nigeria's 2019 elections through the lens of network measurements:
https://ooni.io/post/2019-nigeria-internet-censorship/ (focusing on OONI
analysis)

* Nigeria's 2019 elections through the lens of digital rights:
https://paradigmhq.org/download/the-2019-nigerian-elections-through-the-lens-of-digital-rights/
(includes full PDF with broader digital rights analysis)

Thousands of OONI measurements collected from 16 different ASNs between
1st February 2019 to 31st March 2019 suggest that major internet
services were accessible in Nigeria throughout the 2019 general
elections. Most of the tested websites were found to be accessible,
while popular instant messaging platforms, WhatsApp and Facebook
Messenger, were working as well.

However, a number of sites hosting content associated to the Biafra
secessionist movement remained blocked.

Recent OONI measurements show that Globacom continues to block these
sites by means of TCP/IP blocking, MTN by means of DNS tampering, and
Airtel at the HTTP layer. This is strongly suggested by the fact that
the same network anomalies (in comparison to last year) are observed on
the same networks with regards to the testing of the same list of sites.
Out of more than a thousand URLs tested in total, only sites associated
to Biafra consistently presented network anomalies throughout the
testing period.

You can expand upon this study through the use of OONI Probe
(https://ooni.io/install/) and OONI data (https://ooni.io/data/), which
is openly available.

Best,

Maria.

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Maria Xynou
Research & Partnerships Director
Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI)
https://ooni.torproject.org/
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