Active Incident
Confirmed: internet outage in BW
BW · May 3, 2026 · Ongoing
IODA detected significant connectivity drop in BW. 5 critical alerts recorded.
Evidence
70%
Anomaly Rate
5
Measurements
70%
Confidence
What This Means
70% of 5 network tests from BW failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 67+ 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 North-West"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.71
May 3, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Gaborone"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.69
May 3, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Francistown"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.80
May 3, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Central"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.66
May 3, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Kweneng"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.65
May 3, 2026
View source →Cite This Incident
Voidly Research. (2026). Confirmed: internet outage in BW [BW-2026-0017]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/BW-2026-0017