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Active Incident

Internet connectivity disruption in Iraq

Iraq · April 30, 2026 · Ongoing

IODA detected significant connectivity drop in Iraq. 14 critical alerts recorded.

Evidence

87%
Anomaly Rate
14
Measurements
75%
Confidence

What This Means

87% of 14 network tests from Iraq failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 84+ 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 TimeApril 30, 2026

Corroborating Evidence (44)

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

IODAInternet Outage Detection & Analysis44 records
outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Al-Basrah"IODA report
Signal value: 0.82
Apr 30, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Baghdad"IODA report
Signal value: 0.84
Apr 30, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Al-Basrah"IODA report
Signal value: 0.86
Apr 30, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Al-Basrah"IODA report
Signal value: 0.82
Apr 30, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Baghdad"IODA report
Signal value: 0.84
Apr 30, 2026
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+ 39 more IODA records

Cite This Incident

Voidly Research. (2026). Internet connectivity disruption in Iraq [IQ-2026-0102]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/IQ-2026-0102

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