Active Incident
Confirmed: network disruption in United Kingdom
United Kingdom · January 9, 2026 · 53 days
IODA detected significant connectivity drop. 1 critical alerts recorded. CenAlert confirms censorship activity.
Evidence
96%
Anomaly Rate
7
Measurements
70%
Confidence
What This Means
96% of 7 network tests from United Kingdom failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 93+ percentage point difference strongly indicates intentional blocking.
How We Detected This
Data Sourcecensoredplanet + ioda
ML ModelGradientBoosting v3.3 (LOCO median F1 0.87, honest across 127 countries)
Confidence Score70% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeJanuary 9, 2026
Corroborating Evidence (626)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
IODAInternet Outage Detection & Analysis625 records
outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Surrey"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.02
Mar 3, 2026
View source →outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Manchester"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.96
Feb 23, 2026
View source →outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Essex"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.01
Feb 18, 2026
View source →outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Argyll and Bute"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.03
Feb 18, 2026
View source →outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Norfolk"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.01
Feb 18, 2026
View source →+ 620 more IODA records
Censored PlanetUniversity of Michigan research1 record
interference
"unknown"— Censored Planet report
Signal value: 0.12
Feb 8, 2026
View source →What we cannot say
- Who caused it — measurement data alone does not attribute this to any government, ISP, or other actor.
- Intent — anomalous or unreachable measurements indicate interference, not a stated motive or a deliberate-vs-incidental determination.
- Which networks — no specific ASN/ISP is identified for this incident.
- The mechanism — we cannot state whether this was DNS tampering, TLS/SNI reset, an HTTP blockpage, throttling, or an infrastructure outage.
- Sub-national scope — measurement is aggregated at the country level; we cannot localize to a province, city, or network segment.
Cite This Incident
Voidly Research. (2026). Confirmed: network disruption in United Kingdom [GB-2026-0002]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/GB-2026-0002