{
  "organization": "Organization for Internet Welfare",
  "question": "Is the internet on fire?",
  "answer": "no",
  "on_fire": false,
  "level": 1,
  "level_count": 5,
  "level_name": "Normal",
  "verdict": "Good.",
  "sentence": "The internet is good.",
  "detail": "The internet is not on fire. Nothing unusual is happening.",
  "recommended_action": "You do not need to do anything.",
  "special_protection_needed": "no",
  "effective_date": "23 October 2026",
  "last_reviewed": "23 October 2026",
  "assessed_by": "human review of public sources",
  "automated": false,
  "scale": [
    {
      "level": 1,
      "name": "Normal",
      "meaning": "The internet is working the way it usually works. Ordinary faults are happening somewhere, as they always are, and almost nobody notices them."
    },
    {
      "level": 2,
      "name": "Unsettled",
      "meaning": "One large service or one region is degraded. If you are not using that service, your day looks normal."
    },
    {
      "level": 3,
      "name": "Disrupted",
      "meaning": "A service that millions of people depend on is down, or a whole country has lost a big piece of its connectivity. It is in the news."
    },
    {
      "level": 4,
      "name": "Severe",
      "meaning": "More than one of the systems everything else sits on is in trouble at the same time, and the problems are feeding each other."
    },
    {
      "level": 5,
      "name": "On fire",
      "meaning": "The honest top of the scale. It has never been used."
    }
  ],
  "source": "https://istheinternetonfire.org/",
  "method": "https://istheinternetonfire.org/methodology",
  "usage": "Free to use, no key required, no attribution required.",
  "generated": "2026-10-23T19:54:37.075Z"
}