Active Incident
Internet outage in ST
ST · May 3, 2026 · Ongoing
IODA detected significant connectivity drop in ST. 1 critical alerts recorded.
Evidence
74%
Anomaly Rate
1
Measurements
65%
Confidence
What This Means
74% of 1 network tests from ST failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 71+ 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 São Tomé"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.74
May 3, 2026
View source →Cite This Incident
Voidly Research. (2026). Internet outage in ST [ST-2026-0014]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/ST-2026-0014