Wizz App Joins Industry Leaders at Google D.C. for the Lantern Program's 2025 Transparency Report Launch
"No single actor is enough. The solutions that are working aren't built by one company — they're built by an industry that decides collective responsibility is non-negotiable."
Protecting young people online requires more than individual effort. It takes shared tools, genuine collaboration, and a real commitment to transparency across every platform, every team, and every corner of the tech industry. That was the spirit behind an important moment last week when Wizz App's Head of Operations, Alexandra Ryabova, joined the Tech Coalition's panel at Google's Washington D.C. offices for the official launch of the Lantern Program's 2025 Transparency Report.
What is the Lantern Program?
The Lantern Program is the Tech Coalition's cross-platform signal sharing initiative. The idea is simple but powerful: when one platform identifies a bad actor, every platform should benefit from that knowledge.
Rather than each company detecting threats on its own, Lantern creates shared infrastructure so that risk signals, particularly those related to child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA), can move quickly across member platforms. Faster, more coordinated protection for everyone.
Why collective responsibility matters in online child safety
The conversation at Google's D.C. offices was honest, urgent, and necessary. Online child safety is not a competitive issue. It’s a shared obligation. Bad actors don't stick to one platform, so the industry's defenses cannot either.
A key theme at the panel was access: the tools, knowledge, and approaches that larger platforms have built need to smaller teams earlier. Building safety well requires shared resources, not everyone reinventing the wheel separately.
How Wizz App thinks about safety
At Wizz App, safety was built from the start. From the earliest stages of product development, our team thinks about how design decisions affect the safety and wellbeing of our users, the majority of whom are 17-24 years old.
Our work with the Tech Coalition and programs like Lantern reflects that. Shared safety infrastructure means we can act faster, act smarter, and work alongside the broader industry rather than in isolation.
Alexandra's presence on the panel shows Wizz App's decision to be actively engaged and shape what responsible, safe social platforms look like for Gen Z.
Wizz App, the Tech Coalition, and what's ahead
Wizz App is a member of the Tech Coalition, a global alliance of technology companies committed to ending the sexual exploitation and abuse of children online. Membership means shared goals, transparency, and collective action.
The 2025 Transparency Report is an important milestone. It's also a reminder of how much work remains. Online child safety needs continuous investment, ongoing collaboration, and a refusal to treat safety as somebody else's problem.
Another thread running through the D.C. conversation was education. Keeping young people safe online and ensuring users actually understand what's happening, the risks, and what they can do. Clear, simple, honest communication is part of the job, too.
Wizz App will keep building with safety at its core, contributing to industry efforts like the Lantern Program, showing up to conversations where the direction of that work gets decided, and making sure our users always know how to protect themselves.
Frequently asked questions
What is the Lantern Program and how does it protect children online? The Lantern Program is the Tech Coalition's cross-platform signal sharing system. When a member platform detects a bad actor — especially in cases involving child sexual exploitation — that signal is shared across all member platforms instantly. Every platform in the network benefits, enabling faster and more coordinated responses industry-wide.
Is Wizz App safe for teenagers? Yes. Wizz App is a social platform built specifically with young people's safety in mind. It participates in the Tech Coalition's Lantern Program, uses cross-platform signal sharing to identify and remove bad actors, and continuously invests in trust and safety infrastructure. Safety is built into the product from day one, not added later.
What is the Tech Coalition's 2025 Transparency Report? The Tech Coalition's 2025 Transparency Report is an annual publication documenting the collective efforts of member technology companies to combat online child sexual exploitation and abuse (OCSEA). It covers the scale of the problem, progress made, and areas where more work is needed.
What does "safety by design" mean for a social app? Safety by design means safety decisions are made at the product level, from the very beginning. For Wizz App, that includes proactive content moderation, age verification, participation in shared safety infrastructure like the Lantern Program, and features built specifically to protect younger users.
