Active Incident
Internet outage in India
India · August 2, 2026 · 17 hours
IODA detected significant connectivity drop in India. 2 critical alerts recorded. CenAlert confirms censorship activity.
Evidence
83%
Anomaly Rate
2
Measurements
67%
Confidence
What This Means
83% of 2 network tests from India failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 80+ percentage point difference strongly indicates intentional blocking.
How We Detected This
Data Sourceioda + censoredplanet
ML ModelGradientBoosting v3.3 (LOCO median F1 0.87, honest across 127 countries)
Confidence Score67% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeAugust 2, 2026
Corroborating Evidence (28)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
IODAInternet Outage Detection & Analysis3 records
outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Punjab"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.85
Aug 2, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Punjab"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.83
Aug 2, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Punjab"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.83
Aug 2, 2026
View source →Censored PlanetUniversity of Michigan research25 records
dns-blocking
"DNS blocking detected: 83/83 probes anomalous (100.0%) for bbc.com"— Censored Planet report
Signal value: 1.00
Aug 2, 2026
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"DNS blocking detected: 81/81 probes anomalous (100.0%) for chat.openai.com"— Censored Planet report
Signal value: 1.00
Aug 2, 2026
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"DNS blocking detected: 76/76 probes anomalous (100.0%) for chatgpt.com"— Censored Planet report
Signal value: 1.00
Aug 2, 2026
View source →dns-blocking
"DNS blocking detected: 78/78 probes anomalous (100.0%) for claude.ai"— Censored Planet report
Signal value: 1.00
Aug 2, 2026
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"DNS blocking detected: 80/80 probes anomalous (100.0%) for facebook.com"— Censored Planet report
Signal value: 1.00
Aug 2, 2026
View source →+ 20 more Censored Planet records
Affected Services (20)
BBCChatGPTClaudeFacebookGeminiInstagramLanternMediumNew York TimesProton VPNProtonVPNPsiphonSignalTelegramThe GuardianTikTokTwitter/XWhatsAppXYouTube
Blocked Domains (25)
What we cannot say
- Who caused it — measurement data alone does not attribute this to any government, ISP, or other actor.
- Intent — anomalous or unreachable measurements indicate interference, not a stated motive or a deliberate-vs-incidental determination.
- Which networks — no specific ASN/ISP is identified for this incident.
- The mechanism — we cannot state whether this was DNS tampering, TLS/SNI reset, an HTTP blockpage, throttling, or an infrastructure outage.
- Sub-national scope — measurement is aggregated at the country level; we cannot localize to a province, city, or network segment.
Cite This Incident
Voidly Research. (2026). Internet outage in India [IN-2026-0464]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/IN-2026-0464