[5] It was used by millions of Iranians during the Woman, Life, Freedom protests in Iran in 2022 and again during the surge in censorship in Russia following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

This has raised some concerns about the privacy of users, though Fisk has said the State Department is "incredibly hands off" and never dictates how they should write Lantern, or how they should talk about it.

[12] Another surge occurred after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine when internet freedoms in Russia were severely curtailed.

[14] Lantern is hosted on a wide variety and continually changing set of data centers around the world.

It has used Digital Ocean at times, which was briefly reported as blocked in Iran during the civil unrest on January 2, 2018.