More than 600 000 TikTok videos pulled down

TikTok has removed over 614 000 videos from SA-based accounts for violating several community rules, including those governing integrity, advertising, privacy and security. This was revealed in TikTok’s Q2 2024 Community Guidelines Enforcement Report, showcasing the platform’s growing efforts to ensure user safety and well-being in SA, according to a report in The Citizen. The quarterly report provides transparency on the content and accounts removed during the reporting period for violating the platform’s community guidelines. According to the TikTok report, a total of 614 406 videos were removed, which accounts for only 0.6% of the total videos uploaded in SA in the latest reporting period. Key findings of the report show that 98.7% of these videos were proactively removed before any user reports, with 88.4% taken down within 24 hours. The report also revealed that a total of 143 998 accounts were banned for violating TikTok’s Community Guidelines, with 137 663 accounts being removed because the platform suspected they belonged to people under the age of 13. ‘In June 2024, over 178m videos were removed worldwide, with 144m of these taken down through automation ...,’ TikTok said.

Full report in The Citizen