Active Incident
Confirmed: internet outage in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia · May 3, 2026 · Ongoing
IODA detected significant connectivity drop in Saudi Arabia. 8 critical alerts recorded.
Evidence
60%
Anomaly Rate
8
Measurements
70%
Confidence
What This Means
60% of 8 network tests from Saudi Arabia failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 57+ 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 (8)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
IODAInternet Outage Detection & Analysis8 records
outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Ar Riyad"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.60
May 3, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Al Quassim"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.68
May 3, 2026
View source →outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for `Asir"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.53
May 3, 2026
View source →outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Makkah"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.60
May 3, 2026
View source →outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Tabuk"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.67
May 3, 2026
View source →+ 3 more IODA records
Cite This Incident
Voidly Research. (2026). Confirmed: internet outage in Saudi Arabia [SA-2026-0054]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/SA-2026-0054