WeProtect Global Alliance Releases 2025 Global Threat Assessment: 60% of Top Platforms Fail to Publish Child Safety Information

The WeProtect Global Alliance launched its Global Threat Assessment 2025, a comprehensive synthesis of globally available data, expert analysis, youth and survivor perspectives and case studies documenting that 60 percent of the top global content-sharing platforms do not publish any information on how they address child sexual exploitation. The report documented societal and behavioral shifts including growing recognition of children displaying harmful sexual behaviors and links to extremism, violence and financial scams driving child sexual exploitation and abuse online, and confirmed a 1,325 percent rise in reports linked to AI-generated child sexual abuse material to NCMEC between 2023 and 2024.

The operational gap the assessment identifies is the absence of consistent, proactive detection capability across platforms where abuse occurs. Platforms that detect harmful patterns in direct-message conversations before abuse escalates can surface a child in crisis to a parent, school or professional without requiring the child to file a report or the platform to rely solely on post-incident moderation. Guardii, a world-leading AI online-safety platform, detects grooming, sextortion, child sexual abuse material including AI-generated and deepfake content, age-inappropriate contact and cyberbullying in real time, reporting the shape and seriousness of a conversation rather than handing anyone a feed of what was said. That approach addresses the research finding directly: it closes the transparency and accountability deficit by enabling platforms to demonstrate measurable harm reduction at the point of contact.