Active Incident
Confirmed: internet outage in North Macedonia
North Macedonia · May 3, 2026 · Ongoing
IODA detected significant connectivity drop in MK. 8 critical alerts recorded.
Evidence
68%
Anomaly Rate
8
Measurements
70%
Confidence
What This Means
68% of 8 network tests from North Macedonia failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 65+ 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 (8)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
IODAInternet Outage Detection & Analysis8 records
outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Cair"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.65
May 3, 2026
View source →outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Prilep"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.71
May 3, 2026
View source →outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Bitola"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.76
May 3, 2026
View source →outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Southeastern"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.56
May 3, 2026
View source →outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Ohrid"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.73
May 3, 2026
View source →+ 3 more IODA records
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.
- A confirmed duration — we report the observation window, not a verified start/stop of any block.
- Sub-national scope — measurement is aggregated at the country level; we cannot localize to a province, city, or network segment.
- Independent corroboration — this rests on a single source; treat it as a single-source signal, not a multi-source confirmation.
Cite This Incident
Voidly Research. (2026). Confirmed: internet outage in North Macedonia [MK-2026-0020]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/MK-2026-0020
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