Active Incident
Confirmed: internet outage in Iraq
Iraq · May 3, 2026 · Ongoing
IODA detected significant connectivity drop in Iraq. 9 critical alerts recorded.
Evidence
66%
Anomaly Rate
9
Measurements
70%
Confidence
What This Means
66% of 9 network tests from Iraq failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 63+ 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 Score70% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeMay 3, 2026
Corroborating Evidence (9)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
IODAInternet Outage Detection & Analysis9 records
outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Dhi-Qar"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.67
May 3, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for As-Sulaymaniyah"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.64
May 3, 2026
View source →outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Babil"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.64
May 3, 2026
View source →outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Dihok"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.77
May 3, 2026
View source →outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Al-Basrah"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.68
May 3, 2026
View source →+ 4 more IODA records
Cite This Incident
Voidly Research. (2026). Confirmed: internet outage in Iraq [IQ-2026-0107]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/IQ-2026-0107