Transparency Report 2025

Key insights

6 takeaways

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Take-Two Interactive processed nearly 8 million player reports in 2025, resulting in over 7.3 million enforcement actions primarily targeting cheating, hacks, mods, spam, and fraud.
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Proactive moderation efforts led to an additional 900,000 enforcement actions, consisting mainly of warnings and feature access suspensions.
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The company received 22,215 appeals regarding moderation decisions, with the vast majority of original enforcement actions upheld upon review.
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All reactive moderation involving player reports included human oversight, while proactive enforcement utilized a hybrid approach of both automated tools and human-led processes.
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Take-Two received six information orders from EU authorities during 2025, all of which were addressed within required timeframes, with zero removal orders or reports from 'Trusted Flaggers' issued.
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The 2025 Transparency Report was prepared in compliance with Article 15 of the EU’s Digital Services Act to document moderation of user-generated content, including avatars, communications, and modifications.

Summary

Take-Two Interactive's 2025 Transparency Report, published in February 2026 under Article 15 of the EU Digital Services Act, details content moderation across its global services that let players create or upload content visible to others. It covers January 1 to December 31, 2025, and sets out how Take-Two enforces its Terms of Service, Community Standards, and Code of Conduct through warnings, feature suspensions, account suspensions, and permanent bans. Moderation combines player reporting, human moderators, and automated tools such as ToxMod, Hive Moderation, and PhotoDNA. The company made 11 reports to NCMEC and says it is exploring responsible uses of AI for trust and safety.

Government interaction was limited. Take-Two received six EU Member State Information Orders, from Germany, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, and Romania, with a median action time of 10 days and instant automated acknowledgment. Four concerned fraud, one terrorism or violent extremism, and one had no specified category. No Removal Orders or Trusted Flagger Reports were received, and all orders were actioned within any stated deadlines.

Player reporting was the largest moderation channel: 7,994,904 reports led to 7,313,622 enforcement actions, with a 39.8-hour median action time. Cheating, hacks, or mods led at 2.13 million reports, followed by spam and fraud (1.36 million) and bullying and harassment (1.14 million). Child-related content had the fastest response at 13.5 hours, while terrorism and extremism was slowest at 72.9 hours. Every player report involved a human moderator at some stage.

Proactive moderation produced 679,657 feature access suspensions, 192,505 warnings, 30,747 account bans, 133 account suspensions, and 4,443 content removals. Hate speech and discrimination drove many suspensions, reflecting a shift from warnings in the prior period. Of the proactive decisions, 528,506 were made solely by automated means and 186,474 involved humans. Players filed 22,215 appeals, mostly disputing actions taken. Only 128 of those initial decisions were reversed, against 17,017 upheld, with a median decision time of 63.3 hours. A standardized European Commission format version of the data is also provided.