Active Incident
Confirmed: internet outage in United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates · May 3, 2026 · Ongoing
IODA detected significant connectivity drop in UAE. 5 critical alerts recorded.
Evidence
61%
Anomaly Rate
5
Measurements
70%
Confidence
What This Means
61% of 5 network tests from United Arab Emirates failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 58+ percentage point difference strongly indicates intentional blocking.
How We Detected This
Data Sourceioda
ML ModelGradientBoosting v2 (99.8% F1, internal eval)
Confidence Score70% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeMay 3, 2026
Corroborating Evidence (5)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
IODAInternet Outage Detection & Analysis5 records
outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Dubay"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.60
May 3, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Ajman"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.60
May 3, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Umm Al Qaywayn"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.67
May 3, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Fujayrah"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.59
May 3, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Abu Dhabi"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.60
May 3, 2026
View source →Cite This Incident
Voidly Research. (2026). Confirmed: internet outage in United Arab Emirates [AE-2026-0085]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/AE-2026-0085