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Confirmed: internet outage in Belarus

Belarus · May 3, 2026 · Ongoing

IODA detected significant connectivity drop in Belarus. 7 critical alerts recorded.

Evidence

61%
Anomaly Rate
7
Measurements
70%
Confidence

What This Means

61% of 7 network tests from Belarus 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 (7)

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

IODAInternet Outage Detection & Analysis7 records
outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Vitebsk"IODA report
Signal value: 0.66
May 3, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Grodno"IODA report
Signal value: 0.63
May 3, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for City of Minsk"IODA report
Signal value: 0.62
May 3, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Gomel"IODA report
Signal value: 0.65
May 3, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Mogilev"IODA report
Signal value: 0.60
May 3, 2026
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+ 2 more IODA records

Cite This Incident

Voidly Research. (2026). Confirmed: internet outage in Belarus [BY-2026-0098]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/BY-2026-0098

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