Active Incident
Confirmed: internet outage in Venezuela
Venezuela · May 19, 2026 · Ongoing
IODA detected significant connectivity drop in Venezuela. 16 critical alerts recorded.
Evidence
86%
Anomaly Rate
16
Measurements
75%
Confidence
What This Means
86% of 16 network tests from Venezuela failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 83+ 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 19, 2026
Corroborating Evidence (21)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
IODAInternet Outage Detection & Analysis21 records
outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Zulia"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.79
May 19, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Zulia"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.76
May 19, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Zulia"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.93
May 19, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Zulia"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.76
May 19, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Zulia"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.83
May 19, 2026
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Cite This Incident
Voidly Research. (2026). Confirmed: internet outage in Venezuela [VE-2026-0212]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/VE-2026-0212