Xbox proactively suspended nearly 5 million accounts in first half of 2022 - TrueAchievements

Microsoft has published its archetypal Transparency Report, revealing that it proactively suspended a whopping 4.78 cardinal Xbox accounts successful the archetypal six months of 2022.

The Xbox Transparency Report details the steps Microsoft has taken to mean and support players harmless connected the Xbox platform. According to Microsoft, the institution made implicit 7 cardinal "enforcement actions" betwixt January 1st and June 30th 2022. Approximately two-thirds of enforcement actions issued successful the archetypal fractional of 2022 were a effect of proactive detection, which suggests Microsoft's tech is moving hard to spot and instrumentality enactment connected antagonistic contented and behaviour earlier players notice.

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As a effect of those enforcement actions, Microsoft made 4.5 cardinal account-only suspensions, portion 196,000 required Microsoft to region contented posted by that account. Incidents wherever Microsoft had to some suspend an relationship and region contented accounted for 2.43 million. Microsoft says that an enforcement enactment "comes successful the signifier of removing the offending contented from the work and issuing the associated relationship a impermanent 3-day, 7-day, 14-day, oregon imperishable suspension." Repeated violations of Xbox policies effect successful longer suspensions, accounts being permanently banned, oregon a instrumentality ban.

Microsoft besides provided a breakdown of the astir communal areas of argumentation violations. Of the 4.78 cardinal proactive enforcement actions taken betwixt January 1st and June 30th, 4.33 cardinal progressive cheating oregon inauthentic accounts. The information besides reveals that 199,000 proactive enforcements were taken against accounts for posting big intersexual content, 87,000 for fraud, 54,000 for harassment oregon bullying, 46,000 for profanity, 26,000 for phishing, and further 23,000 for 'Other' violations, which Microsoft describes arsenic "smaller measurement areas specified arsenic piracy, relationship tampering, real-world concerns, drugs, vulgar content, hatred speech, spam, advertising, oregon solicitation."

The study besides reveals that with the summation successful proactive actions taken, the fig of subordinate reports made betwixt January 1st and June 30th (33.08 million) has decreased by 36% compared to the aforesaid play successful 2021 (52.05 million). The bulk of the 33.08 cardinal reports related to subordinate conduct, which includes cheating, unsporting conduct, and teamkilling.