ℹ️ Update: Internet connectivity remains available in #Bangladesh amid reports Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has fled the country, bringing an end to her combined total of 20 years in power; hundreds of killings at student protests were masked by telecoms blackouts in recent weeks

⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show a significant decline in internet connectivity in #Ohio with high impact to Cleveland after powerful storms bring down power and telecoms lines, leaving hundreds of thousands of subscribers cut off 🔌📉 #OHwx

⚠️ Confirmed: Live metrics show that popular online gaming and game creation platform Roblox has been restricted on leading internet providers in #Turkey; meanwhile, photo and video sharing app Instagram remains restricted for a sixth day

⚠️ Confirmed: Live network data show sporadic disruptions to internet connectivity in and around Kursk, #Russia, as Ukraine continues its cross-border incursion into Russian territory; the outages are provisionally attributed to DDoS attacks targeting local infrastructure 📉

⚠️ Confirmed: Analysis of traffic data reveals a gradual decline in YouTube traffic in #Russia from late July, with a sudden marked reduction this morning, corroborating user reports of latency and outages; YouTube was one of the last social platforms still available in Russia

⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show the Signal messaging app website has become unreachable on multiple internet providers in #Venezuela, corroborating user reports of a disruption; the app remains functional with the "censorship circumvention" setting enabled #8Ago

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⚠️ Confirmed: Live metrics show X (formerly Twitter) is now restricted in #Venezuela as contested president Maduro orders regulator Conatel to ban the platform for 10 days, claiming that it promotes civil war; the incident comes a day after similar calls to ban X in the UK #8Ago

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⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show #Russia has restricted Signal messaging app backends on most internet providers; regulator Roskomnadzor states that the ban has been imposed to prevent Signal's use for "extremist" purposes; the app remains usable with "censorship circumvention" enabled

ℹ️ Confirmed: Live metrics show that Instagram is being gradually restored on internet providers in #Turkey after authorities and Meta negotiate the removal of terrorist content and reinstatement of unfairly closed accounts; the social media platform was restricted for 9 days

⚠️ Note: X Spaces are currently experiencing international outages; the incident is understood to be due to server issues as the platform hosts a live interview between Elon Musk and US presidential candidate Donald Trump #TwitterDown

⚠️ Confirmed: Traffic data show a pattern of widescale internet disruptions in #Mauritania during morning and afternoon national school exams; the incidents are consistent with blackouts reported in past years to prevent cheating and paper leaks 📉

⚠️ Confirmed: Network data show a significant decline to internet connectivity in and around the U.S. Virgin Islands as Tropical Storm Ernesto lashes the region with flooding rains and damaging winds; the storm is expected to intensify into a hurricane later today 🌧

ℹ️ Note: Code hosting platform GitHub is currently experiencing international outages; incident not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering #GithubDown

⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show a significant decline in internet connectivity in #Bermuda as Category 1 Hurricane Ernesto makes landfall on the archipelago early Saturday morning; the incident comes amid widening power outages reported by power company BELCO 🌀

⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show a major ongoing disruption to the main internet provider in Snezhinsk, Chelyabinsk, #Russia, from the night of 13 August, corroborating Ukraine Intelligence claims of a successful cyber op targeting a nuclear weapons development facility near the city

ℹ️ Note: Metrics show a brief disruption to WhatsApp in #Russia corroborating reports of outages of messaging services also affecting Telegram; regulator Roskomnadzor claims the issue is due to a "DDoS attack"

⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show internet connectivity levels have fallen in multiple regions of #Ukraine including Kyiv after a series of deadly Russian missile and drone attacks targeting energy infrastructure followed by emergency power shutdowns 📉

⚠️ Confirmed: Network data show a collapse in internet connectivity in Sevastopol amid reports of mass power outages in occupied #Crimea; the regional Russian leadership claims the incident is due to an emergency shutdown of Crimean energy distribution networks 📉

⚠️ Update: National internet connectivity in #Ukraine remains at 71% of ordinary levels with ongoing widespread power outages after Russia launches a barrage of missile and drone attacks targeting civil and energy infrastructure, one of the war's largest on record