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Internet outage in Iraq

Iraq · May 20, 2026 · Ongoing

IODA detected significant connectivity drop in Iraq. 3 critical alerts recorded.

Evidence

84%
Anomaly Rate
3
Measurements
67%
Confidence

What This Means

84% of 3 network tests from Iraq failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 81+ percentage point difference strongly indicates intentional blocking.

How We Detected This

Data Sourceioda
ML ModelGradientBoosting v2 (99.8% F1, internal eval)
Confidence Score67% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeMay 20, 2026

Corroborating Evidence (3)

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 Al-Basrah"IODA report
Signal value: 0.87
May 20, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Baghdad"IODA report
Signal value: 0.80
May 20, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Sala ad-Din"IODA report
Signal value: 0.85
May 20, 2026
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Cite This Incident

Voidly Research. (2026). Internet outage in Iraq [IQ-2026-0119]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/IQ-2026-0119

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