KARACHI: TikTok has revealed that during January to March this year the company has removed 166.99 million videos worldwide for breaching the platform’s community guidelines. The number includes over 20m videos from Pakistan.

According to TikTok’s latest community guidelines enforcement report released on Monday, for the first quarter on 2024, TikTok’s proactive measures led to the removal of 166,997,307 videos worldwide, representing about 0.9 per cent of all videos uploaded on the platform.

In a bid to enhance transparency, TikTok has now disclosed the number of comments removed and filtered by its comment safety tools for the first time. TikTok has removed and filtered 976,479,946 comments during the three-month period.

In Pakistan alone, the platform took action against 20,207,878 videos for also breaching its community guidelines during the same period.

It said that approximately 93.9pc of videos that violated the guidelines were removed within 24 hours of posting, and the proactive removal rate for the quarter stood at 99.8pc 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.

Published in Dawn, July 9th, 2024