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Active Incident

Confirmed: internet outage in Bangladesh

Bangladesh · May 1, 2026 · Ongoing

IODA detected significant connectivity drop in Bangladesh. 12 critical alerts recorded.

Evidence

61%
Anomaly Rate
12
Measurements
75%
Confidence

What This Means

61% of 12 network tests from Bangladesh failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 58+ percentage point difference strongly indicates intentional blocking.

How We Detected This

Data Sourceioda
ML ModelGradientBoosting v3.3 (LOCO median F1 0.87, honest across 127 countries)
Confidence Score75% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeMay 1, 2026

Corroborating Evidence (12)

Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.

IODAInternet Outage Detection & Analysis12 records
outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Barisal"IODA report
Signal value: 0.02
May 1, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Dhaka"IODA report
Signal value: 0.84
May 1, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Sylhet"IODA report
Signal value: 0.02
May 1, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Dhaka"IODA report
Signal value: 0.76
May 1, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Dhaka"IODA report
Signal value: 0.86
May 1, 2026
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+ 7 more IODA records

Cite This Incident

Voidly Research. (2026). Confirmed: internet outage in Bangladesh [BD-2026-0106]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/BD-2026-0106

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