Active Incident
Confirmed: internet outage in Venezuela
Venezuela · August 5, 2026 · 20 hours
IODA detected significant connectivity drop in Venezuela. 7 critical alerts recorded. CenAlert confirms censorship activity.
Evidence
22%
Anomaly Rate
7
Measurements
70%
Confidence
What This Means
22% 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 Score70% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeAugust 5, 2026
Corroborating Evidence (43)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
IODAInternet Outage Detection & Analysis23 records
outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Sucre"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.21
Aug 5, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Sucre"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.22
Aug 5, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Sucre"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.22
Aug 5, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Carabobo"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.20
Aug 5, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Aragua"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.21
Aug 5, 2026
View source →+ 18 more IODA records
Censored PlanetUniversity of Michigan research20 records
dns-blocking
"DNS blocking detected: 4/4 probes anomalous (100.0%) for bbc.com"— Censored Planet report
Signal value: 1.00
Aug 5, 2026
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"DNS blocking detected: 4/4 probes anomalous (100.0%) for chat.openai.com"— Censored Planet report
Signal value: 1.00
Aug 5, 2026
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"DNS blocking detected: 4/4 probes anomalous (100.0%) for chatgpt.com"— Censored Planet report
Signal value: 1.00
Aug 5, 2026
View source →dns-blocking
"DNS blocking detected: 4/4 probes anomalous (100.0%) for claude.ai"— Censored Planet report
Signal value: 1.00
Aug 5, 2026
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"DNS blocking detected: 2/2 probes anomalous (100.0%) for facebook.com"— Censored Planet report
Signal value: 1.00
Aug 5, 2026
View source →+ 15 more Censored Planet records
Affected Services (16)
BBCChatGPTClaudeFacebookGeminiInstagramLanternMediumProton VPNProtonVPNPsiphonSignalTelegramThe GuardianTwitter/XX
Blocked Domains (20)
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). Confirmed: internet outage in Venezuela [VE-2026-1585]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/VE-2026-1585