Active Incident
Internet outage in Qatar
Qatar · May 3, 2026 · Ongoing
IODA detected significant connectivity drop in Qatar. 4 critical alerts recorded.
Evidence
73%
Anomaly Rate
4
Measurements
67%
Confidence
What This Means
73% of 4 network tests from Qatar failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 70+ 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 Score67% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeMay 3, 2026
Corroborating Evidence (4)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
IODAInternet Outage Detection & Analysis4 records
outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Al Khawr"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.88
May 3, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Ar Rayyān"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.63
May 3, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Umm Salal"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.81
May 3, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Ad Dawhah"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.60
May 3, 2026
View source →Cite This Incident
Voidly Research. (2026). Internet outage in Qatar [QA-2026-0033]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/QA-2026-0033