{
  "id": "2026-starlink-border-disruption",
  "title": "Starlink terminal deactivations in resistance-held border regions, July 2026",
  "class": "regional",
  "type": "starlink_blockade",
  "status": "ongoing",
  "date_start": "2026-07-02T00:00:00.000Z",
  "scope": {
    "regions": [
      "Kachin",
      "Kayah",
      "Rakhine",
      "Mandalay",
      "Sagaing"
    ],
    "townships": [],
    "asns": [],
    "operators": []
  },
  "confidence": "verified_ground",
  "detection_sequence": [
    {
      "layer": "media",
      "at": "2026-07-06T00:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "DVB (english.dvb.no, tier A): SpaceX deactivated Starlink terminals nationwide as an anti-scam-hub measure, but the cutoff severed a lifeline for resistance-controlled regions; terminals reportedly offline since Thursday (Jul 2). More than 20% of active Starlink terminals in Myanmar deactivated. Named regions: Kachin, Karenni (Kayah), Arakan (Rakhine), Mandalay, Sagaing.",
      "signal_ids": []
    },
    {
      "layer": "media",
      "at": "2026-07-09T00:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "Myanmar Now (Burmese original, machine-translated and independently re-verified this session): Starlink itself is the actor, citing lack of an operating license and 'restricted zones' designation, not a resistance-imposed measure. Notes the blockade coincides with, but is a distinct action from, the earlier ~2,500-device deactivation targeting scam centers.",
      "signal_ids": []
    },
    {
      "layer": "media",
      "at": "2026-07-09T00:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "Burma News International (bnionline.net, tier C): displaced civilians, businesses, and humanitarian actors along the Thailand-Myanmar border report acute effects from the restriction.",
      "signal_ids": []
    }
  ],
  "verified_by": [
    "media"
  ],
  "narrative": "DRAFT — needs an editor rewrite. This event was independently fact-checked earlier in this project's research (not re-derived from scratch here): DVB's article date is July 6, 2026 (our own digest entry's publishedAt metadata incorrectly says July 5 — flag for a digest-pipeline fix, separate from this event). \"Since Thursday\" in the DVB piece resolves to July 2, 2026, which is used as date_start. The 20%-of-terminals and named-region figures are DVB's own reporting, tier A. A separate digest item citing SpaceX disabling ~2,500 devices at scam centers, originally dated in our digest as 2026-06-02, was found during that same fact-check to actually be a re-syndication of an October 22, 2025 story (Lauren Dreyer's disclosure, same week as the KK Park raid) — an 8-month digest-metadata error, NOT part of this July 2026 event; excluded here for that reason, flagged separately for the digest pipeline. No OONI/BGP/IODA technical layer: this project's own investigation found that OONI's Starlink-ASN (AS14593) probe-originated measurements for Myanmar had already dropped to zero starting June 10, 2026 — three weeks before this event's July 2 start — and stayed at zero throughout, which is inconsistent with (not supporting of) attributing a technical signal specifically to this event; that anomaly is unexplained and separate. A total-network OONI measurement volume dip was observed Jul 6-7, 2026 but could not be cleanly attributed to this event either. Per the caution already applied in this project's research: media-sourced only, verified_ground tier, not overstated as technically confirmed.\n",
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "DVB (english.dvb.no)",
      "url": "https://english.dvb.no/starlink-disruptions-hit-myanmar-amid-crackdown-on-cyber-scam-hubs/"
    },
    {
      "label": "Myanmar Now",
      "url": "https://myanmar-now.org/mm/news/79441/"
    },
    {
      "label": "Burma News International",
      "url": "https://www.bnionline.net/en/news/users-along-thailand-myanmar-border-fear-isolation-spacex-restricts-starlink-internet-access"
    },
    {
      "label": "New Day Myanmar",
      "url": "https://newdaymyanmar.com/starlink-service-restricted-for-many-users-in-myanmar-border-areas/"
    }
  ],
  "data_links": {
    "csv": "/data/events/2026-starlink-border-disruption.csv",
    "json": "/data/events/2026-starlink-border-disruption.json"
  },
  "technical_corroboration": {
    "layer": "ioda",
    "last_checked": "2026-07-20T00:00:00.000Z",
    "result": "inconclusive"
  }
}