TikTok takes action against 20m videos in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: During the January-March period of 2024, TikTok acted against 20,207,878 videos in Pakistan for breaching its Community Guidelines, underscoring its resolve to combat violations effectively.

Overall TikTok removed 166,997,307 videos worldwide, representing about 0.9 percent of all videos uploaded on the platform, to foster a secure and positive online environment. A substantial portion of these, 129,335,793 videos, were identified and removed through automated detection technologies, while 6,042,287 videos were reinstated upon further review.

The data was unveiled in TikTok’s latest Community Guidelines Enforcement Report for the first quarter of 2024. In a bid to enhance transparency, TikTok has now disclosed the number of comments removed and filtered by comment safety tools for the first time. TikTok has removed and filtered 976,479,946 comments using comment safety tools during this three-month period.

Moreover, TikTok pursued spam accounts and related content, implementing measures to prevent the proliferation of automated spam accounts. Notably, approximately 93.9% of videos that violated the guidelines were removed within 24 hours of posting, and the proactive removal rate for the quarter stood impressively at 99.8% globally. In a global effort to safeguard younger users, TikTok also deleted 21,639,414 accounts suspected of belonging to individuals under the age of 13.