Active Incident
Internet outage in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea · May 3, 2026 · Ongoing
IODA detected significant connectivity drop in Papua New Guinea. 1 critical alerts recorded.
Evidence
70%
Anomaly Rate
1
Measurements
65%
Confidence
What This Means
70% of 1 network tests from Papua New Guinea 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 v3.3 (LOCO median F1 0.87, honest across 127 countries)
Confidence Score65% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeMay 3, 2026
Corroborating Evidence (1)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
IODAInternet Outage Detection & Analysis1 record
outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for National Capital District"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.70
May 3, 2026
View source →Cite This Incident
Voidly Research. (2026). Internet outage in Papua New Guinea [PG-2026-0012]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/PG-2026-0012