Overview

• Incidence rose from 9.4% last year to 12.3%, with the increase attributed to cyberbullying cases alone or combined with in‑person harassment.
• Students say AI features in 14.2% of cyberbullying, mainly to create fake videos or audios from classmates’ images (54.8%) and to impersonate identities (32.2%).
• Physical violence has intensified, with punches and kicks now present in about 31% of reported bullying incidents.
• Cases concentrate among 11–12 year olds, and content circulates primarily on WhatsApp, Instagram and TikTok, with videogames prominent in primary school.
• Victims typically wait around 13 months to tell someone, and the government is preparing a digital‑protection law to treat AI‑manipulated sexual content involving minors as a crime.