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Active Incident

Confirmed: internet outage in Panama

Panama · May 3, 2026 · Ongoing

IODA detected significant connectivity drop in Panama. 5 critical alerts recorded.

Evidence

63%
Anomaly Rate
5
Measurements
70%
Confidence

What This Means

63% of 5 network tests from Panama failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 60+ percentage point difference strongly indicates intentional blocking.

How We Detected This

Data Sourceioda
ML ModelGradientBoosting v3.3 (LOCO median F1 0.87, honest across 127 countries)
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 Colón"IODA report
Signal value: 0.67
May 3, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Chiriquí"IODA report
Signal value: 0.54
May 3, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Herrera"IODA report
Signal value: 0.64
May 3, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Coclé"IODA report
Signal value: 0.57
May 3, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Veraguas"IODA report
Signal value: 0.74
May 3, 2026
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Cite This Incident

Voidly Research. (2026). Confirmed: internet outage in Panama [PA-2026-0037]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/PA-2026-0037

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