Active Incident
Internet outage in Iraq
Iraq · April 26, 2026 · 17 hours
IODA detected significant connectivity drop in Iraq. 3 critical alerts recorded. CenAlert confirms censorship activity.
Evidence
80%
Anomaly Rate
3
Measurements
67%
Confidence
What This Means
80% of 3 network tests from Iraq failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 77+ percentage point difference strongly indicates intentional blocking.
How We Detected This
Data Sourceioda + censoredplanet
ML ModelGradientBoosting v3.3 (LOCO median F1 0.87, honest across 127 countries)
Confidence Score67% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeApril 26, 2026
Corroborating Evidence (63)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
IODAInternet Outage Detection & Analysis62 records
outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Baghdad"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.85
Apr 26, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Baghdad"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.80
Apr 26, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Baghdad"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.86
Apr 26, 2026
View source →outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Al-Basrah"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.86
Apr 26, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Baghdad"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.77
Apr 26, 2026
View source →+ 57 more IODA records
Censored PlanetUniversity of Michigan research1 record
dns-blocking
"DNS blocking detected: 2/2 probes anomalous (100.0%) for tiktok.com"— Censored Planet report
Signal value: 1.00
Apr 26, 2026
View source →Affected Services (1)
TikTok
Blocked Domains (1)
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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.
Cite This Incident
Voidly Research. (2026). Internet outage in Iraq [IQ-2026-0094]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/IQ-2026-0094
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