TikTok has announced that it pulled down over 500,000 videos from its platform between April and June this year over violations of its community guidelines.
The popular social media platform, in its Quarter Two 2025 Community Guidelines Enforcement Report released on Tuesday, November 4, noted that the move was part of its efforts to create a safe digital space for its users.
The report highlighted proactive steps taken by the platform to identify and remove content that violates its community guidelines, ensuring a positive experience for its global community.
According to TikTok, it removed 592,037 videos from its platform between April and June this year, with 92 per cent of these clips deleted before they were viewed.
Globally, the video-sharing platform removed 189 million videos during the same quarter, representing just 0.7 per cent of all content uploaded on the platform worldwide.
Out of these, 163.9 million videos were automatically removed by Artificial Intelligence-driven moderation systems, with 94.4 per cent of the videos taken down within 24 hours.
To help protect TikTok's integrity, in this quarter, the platform has removed 76,991,660 fake accounts, along with the additional 25,904,708 accounts that were suspected to be under the age of 13.
"By integrating advanced automated moderation technologies with the expertise of thousands of trust and safety professionals, TikTok enables faster and consistent removal of content that violates its Community Guidelines," TikTok revealed.
Adding, "This approach is vital in mitigating the damaging effects of misinformation, hate speech, and other violative content material on the platform."
During the same period, the platform took stern action against LIVE sessions with TikTok, disclosing that it issued warnings and demonetization on 2,321,813 LIVE sessions.
"Warnings serve as an opportunity to educate creators when their content may breach LIVE monetisation policies, allowing them to make necessary changes," TikTok noted.
To further strengthen efforts in ensuring safety on the platform, TikTok encouraged Kenyans to report any content, comments, or accounts that appear to violate the platform’s standards.
