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Active Incident

Internet outage in Morocco

Morocco · May 3, 2026 · 14 hours

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

Evidence

83%
Anomaly Rate
1
Measurements
65%
Confidence

What This Means

83% of 1 network tests from Morocco failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 80+ 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 Score65% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeMay 3, 2026

Corroborating Evidence (34)

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

IODAInternet Outage Detection & Analysis9 records
outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Fès - Boulemane"IODA report
Signal value: 0.53
May 3, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Chaouia - Ouardigha"IODA report
Signal value: 0.57
May 3, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Souss - Massa - Draâ"IODA report
Signal value: 0.58
May 3, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Meknès - Tafilalet"IODA report
Signal value: 0.57
May 3, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Rabat - Salé - Zemmour - Zaer"IODA report
Signal value: 0.67
May 3, 2026
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+ 4 more IODA records
Censored PlanetUniversity of Michigan research25 records
dns-blocking
"DNS blocking detected: 2/2 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: 2/2 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: 2/2 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: 2/2 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)

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 Morocco [MA-2026-0080]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/MA-2026-0080

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