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Confirmed: internet outage in Syria

Syria · May 3, 2026 · Ongoing

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

Evidence

62%
Anomaly Rate
5
Measurements
70%
Confidence

What This Means

62% of 5 network tests from Syria failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 59+ 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 (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 Lattakia"IODA report
Signal value: 0.73
May 3, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Damascus"IODA report
Signal value: 0.60
May 3, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Aleppo"IODA report
Signal value: 0.58
May 3, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Hamah"IODA report
Signal value: 0.63
May 3, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Homs (Hims)"IODA report
Signal value: 0.58
May 3, 2026
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Cite This Incident

Voidly Research. (2026). Confirmed: internet outage in Syria [SY-2026-0059]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/SY-2026-0059

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