Internet outage in Venezuela

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Internet outage in Venezuela

Venezuela · May 3, 2026 · 20 hours

IODA detected significant connectivity drop in Venezuela. 1 critical alerts recorded. CenAlert confirms censorship activity.

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Evidence

24%

Anomaly Rate

1

Measurements

65%

Confidence

What This Means

24% of tests showed anomalies, above the typical 1-3% baseline. This suggests potential network interference.

How We Detected This

Data Sourceioda + censoredplanet

ML ModelGradientBoosting v3.3 (LOCO median F1 0.87, honest across 127 countries)

Confidence Score65% certainty of censorship

Detection TimeMay 3, 2026

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Corroborating Evidence (59)

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

IODAInternet Outage Detection & Analysis34 records

outage

"IODA detected critical level outage for Falcón"— IODA report

Signal value: 0.67

May 3, 2026

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outage

"IODA detected critical level outage for Miranda"— IODA report

Signal value: 0.60

May 3, 2026

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outage

"IODA detected critical level outage for Aragua"— IODA report

Signal value: 0.68

May 3, 2026

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outage

"IODA detected critical level outage for Sucre"— IODA report

Signal value: 0.63

May 3, 2026

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outage

"IODA detected critical level outage for Lara"— IODA report

Signal value: 0.63

May 3, 2026

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+ 29 more IODA records

Censored PlanetUniversity of Michigan research25 records

dns-blocking

"DNS blocking detected: 5/5 probes anomalous (100.0%) for bbc.com"— Censored Planet report

Signal value: 1.00

May 3, 2026

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dns-blocking

"DNS blocking detected: 5/5 probes anomalous (100.0%) for chat.openai.com"— Censored Planet report

Signal value: 1.00

May 3, 2026

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dns-blocking

"DNS blocking detected: 5/5 probes anomalous (100.0%) for chatgpt.com"— Censored Planet report

Signal value: 1.00

May 3, 2026

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dns-blocking

"DNS blocking detected: 5/5 probes anomalous (100.0%) for claude.ai"— Censored Planet report

Signal value: 1.00

May 3, 2026

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dns-blocking

"DNS blocking detected: 2/2 probes anomalous (100.0%) for facebook.com"— Censored Planet report

Signal value: 1.00

May 3, 2026

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+ 20 more Censored Planet records

Affected Services (20)

BBCChatGPTClaudeFacebookGeminiInstagramLanternMediumNew York TimesProton VPNProtonVPNPsiphonSignalTelegramThe GuardianTikTokTwitter/XWhatsAppXYouTube

Blocked Domains (25)

bbc.com chat.openai.com chatgpt.com claude.ai facebook.com gemini.google.com getlantern.org google.com huggingface.co instagram.com medium.com nytimes.com openai.com protonvpn.com psiphon.ca reddit.com signal.org substack.com telegram.org theguardian.comand 5 more

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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 Venezuela [VE-2026-0176]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/VE-2026-0176

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Internet outage in Venezuela

Evidence

What This Means

How We Detected This

Corroborating Evidence (59)

Affected Services (20)

Blocked Domains (25)

What we cannot say

Cite This Incident

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