Active Incident
Confirmed: sustained censorship in Venezuela (2026-05)
Venezuela · May 1, 2026 · 30 days
OONI detected 100 days of elevated network interference averaging 63.5% anomaly rate.
Evidence
64%
Anomaly Rate
100
Measurements
77%
Confidence
What This Means
64% of 100 network tests from Venezuela failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 61+ percentage point difference strongly indicates intentional blocking.
How We Detected This
Data Sourceooni
ML ModelGradientBoosting v3.3 (LOCO median F1 0.87, honest across 127 countries)
Confidence Score77% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeMay 1, 2026
Corroborating Evidence (100)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
OONIOpen Observatory of Network Interference100 records
blocking
"OONI signal: 22/32 measurements anomalous (68.8%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.69
May 31, 2026
View source →blocking
"OONI signal: 21/35 measurements anomalous (60.0%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.60
May 31, 2026
View source →blocking
"OONI signal: 26/29 measurements anomalous (89.7%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.90
May 31, 2026
View source →blocking
"OONI signal: 22/36 measurements anomalous (61.1%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.61
May 31, 2026
View source →blocking
"OONI signal: 23/41 measurements anomalous (56.1%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.56
May 30, 2026
View source →+ 95 more OONI records
Affected Services (1)
Signal
What we cannot say
- Who caused it — measurement data alone does not attribute this to any government, ISP, or other actor.
- Intent — anomalous or unreachable measurements indicate interference, not a stated motive or a deliberate-vs-incidental determination.
- Which networks — no specific ASN/ISP is identified for this incident.
- The mechanism — we cannot state whether this was DNS tampering, TLS/SNI reset, an HTTP blockpage, throttling, or an infrastructure outage.
- Sub-national scope — measurement is aggregated at the country level; we cannot localize to a province, city, or network segment.
- Independent corroboration — this rests on a single source; treat it as a single-source signal, not a multi-source confirmation.
Cite This Incident
Voidly Research. (2026). Confirmed: sustained censorship in Venezuela (2026-05) [VE-2026-0408]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/VE-2026-0408
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