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Internet connectivity disruption in Bulgaria

Bulgaria · May 3, 2026 · Ongoing

IODA detected significant connectivity drop in Bulgaria. 22 critical alerts recorded.

Evidence

68%
Anomaly Rate
22
Measurements
75%
Confidence

What This Means

68% of 22 network tests from Bulgaria 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 v2 (99.8% F1, internal eval)
Confidence Score75% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeMay 3, 2026

Corroborating Evidence (22)

Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.

IODAInternet Outage Detection & Analysis22 records
outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Veliko Tarnovo"IODA report
Signal value: 0.63
May 3, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Pernik"IODA report
Signal value: 0.69
May 3, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Shumen"IODA report
Signal value: 0.63
May 3, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Montana"IODA report
Signal value: 0.80
May 3, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Ruse"IODA report
Signal value: 0.68
May 3, 2026
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+ 17 more IODA records

Cite This Incident

Voidly Research. (2026). Internet connectivity disruption in Bulgaria [BG-2026-0027]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/BG-2026-0027

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