Active Incident
Confirmed: internet outage in Venezuela
Venezuela · May 1, 2026 · Ongoing
IODA detected significant connectivity drop in Venezuela. 27 critical alerts recorded.
Evidence
71%
Anomaly Rate
27
Measurements
75%
Confidence
What This Means
71% of 27 network tests from Venezuela failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 68+ percentage point difference strongly indicates intentional blocking.
How We Detected This
Data Sourceioda
ML ModelGradientBoosting v2 (99.8% F1, internal eval)
Confidence Score75% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeMay 1, 2026
Corroborating Evidence (90)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
IODAInternet Outage Detection & Analysis90 records
outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Guárico"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.23
May 1, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Guárico"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.24
May 1, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Mérida"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.86
May 1, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Zulia"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.77
May 1, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Barinas"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.76
May 1, 2026
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Cite This Incident
Voidly Research. (2026). Confirmed: internet outage in Venezuela [VE-2026-0173]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/VE-2026-0173