Proton VPN Observatory (2025)

Access to the social media platform X has been restricted in Tanzania after some official accounts of government and private institutions were targeted by hackers amid ongoing crackdown on political opposition in the country ahead of the general election later this year.

Turkish authorities detained President Tayyip Erdogan's main political rival Ekrem Imamoglu, the Istanbul mayor, days before his expected nomination as presidential candidate for Türkiye's main opposition party. Restrictions have also been reported on several social media platforms including X, YouTube, Instagram and TikTok.

Albanian authorities have ordered all internet service providers to block access to TikTok in the country by Thursday, March 13, amid concerns over violence among children. A similar ban took place in April last year in Kyrgyzstan.

Myanmar’s military junta announced that it would hold elections, for the first time since seizing power in a 2021 coup, in December 2025 or January 2026. A promise denounced as a "sham" by experts who fear further violence in the run-up to any poll.

Operators in the country have been asked to block certain IP addresses on their networks, wrongly affecting numerous popular services like Instagram, Bluesky, X, Github... Resulting in millions of users not being able to access more than 3,300 Spanish-language websites.

Kazakh’s President has signed into law a controversial bill on mass media that will hinder journalists from getting comments from officials and interviews, raising concerns from domestic and international rights groups and media experts.

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels captured eastern DRC’s largest city of Goma as conflict intensifies in the central African nation.

Presidential elections: significant increase in VPN demands ahead of the presidential elections in the country scheduled on January 26, reportedly by fear of potential censorship or internet shutdowns.

TikTok went offline in the United States on the night of January 18, few hours before a ban was slated to go into effect.

Reported block of TikTok and several VPN websites in Venezuela and reportedly fear of tensions in the country ahead of Maduro’s inauguration scheduled on January 10.