Microsoft has released its sixth Xbox Transparency Report, a special document where the company details the results of its efforts to keep Xbox fun, positive, safe, and age-appropriate. During 2025, Microsoft employed more tech to bolster its safety measures, including more use of AI, an adaptive approach to spam, and improved tools for gamers.
Microsoft says that in 2025, it expanded the use of AI-powered moderation, which now includes 11 additional harmful topics, such as hate speech, bullying, harassment, and cheating. The use of AI allows Microsoft to automate the process and improve harmful content detection while keeping human moderators focused on more nuanced and complex topics.
Besides expanding the scope of topics that AI can handle on its own, Microsoft improved its proactive moderation efforts to combat unwanted content. As a result, Microsoft reports a 90% decrease in spam complaints compared to 2024 and 23% fewer complaints about messages from non-friends.
Microsoft is also enhancing the tools that gamers can use to report harmful or unfair behavior. For example, in Forza Horizon 5, Turn 10 Studios improved reporting capabilities for user-generated content so that gamers can file a report more efficiently without leaving a game. Reporting cheaters, harmful, toxic or otherwise unwanted content no longer requires leaving the game or navigating to the Forza support website.
The report contains some interesting stats about the content that Microsoft"s system scanned in 2025. In total, 14.8 billion pieces of content were moderated, of which 2.5% or 368 million turned out to be harmful, including usernames, images, text, and other user-generated content. Most of those violations were identified as abuse of the platform and services (150 million), profanity (62 million), pornography (51 million), bullying (38 million), and hateful conduct (28 million). Microsoft received 39 million reports from users, and 3.7 million or 9.6%, led to action and restrictions. 1.3 million reports were processed manually and 2.4 million automatically.
If you are curious to learn more about Microsoft"s measures to keep its gaming platform safe for everyone, check out the latest Xbox Transparency Report here.