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Internet outage in El Salvador

El Salvador · May 3, 2026 · Ongoing

IODA detected significant connectivity drop in El Salvador. 4 critical alerts recorded.

Evidence

53%
Anomaly Rate
4
Measurements
67%
Confidence

What This Means

53% of 4 network tests from El Salvador failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 50+ percentage point difference strongly indicates intentional blocking.

How We Detected This

Data Sourceioda
ML ModelGradientBoosting v2 (99.8% F1, internal eval)
Confidence Score67% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeMay 3, 2026

Corroborating Evidence (4)

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

IODAInternet Outage Detection & Analysis4 records
outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for San Salvador"IODA report
Signal value: 0.62
May 3, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for La Libertad"IODA report
Signal value: 0.67
May 3, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for San Miguel"IODA report
Signal value: 0.63
May 3, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Santa Ana"IODA report
Signal value: 0.21
May 3, 2026
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Cite This Incident

Voidly Research. (2026). Internet outage in El Salvador [SV-2026-0004]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/SV-2026-0004

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