Active Incident
Confirmed: internet outage in United Kingdom
United Kingdom · March 18, 2026 · 13 hours
IODA detected significant connectivity drop in United Kingdom. 8 critical alerts recorded.
Evidence
14%
Anomaly Rate
8
Measurements
70%
Confidence
What This Means
14% of tests showed anomalies, above the typical 1-3% baseline. This suggests potential network interference.
How We Detected This
Data Sourceioda
ML ModelGradientBoosting v3.3 (LOCO median F1 0.87, honest across 127 countries)
Confidence Score70% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeMarch 18, 2026
Corroborating Evidence (8)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
IODAInternet Outage Detection & Analysis8 records
outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Kensington and Chelsea"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.04
Mar 18, 2026
View source →outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Suffolk"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.18
Mar 18, 2026
View source →outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Suffolk"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.18
Mar 18, 2026
View source →outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Eilean Siar"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.01
Mar 18, 2026
View source →outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Suffolk"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.18
Mar 18, 2026
View source →+ 3 more IODA records
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: internet outage in United Kingdom [GB-2026-0018]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/GB-2026-0018
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