14th October, 2021
TikTok, a leading destination for short-form mobile video, has released its Q2 Community Guidelines Enforcement Report.
The report details the volume and nature of violative content and accounts removed from TikTok to protect the safety of “our community and integrity of our platform and also sharing updates on its work to protect people from abusive behavior”.
According to the report, 81,518,334 videos were removed globally between April and June for violating Community Guidelines or Terms of Service, which is less than 1% of all videos uploaded on TikTok.
“Of those videos, TikTok identified and removed 93.0% within 24 hours of being posted and 94.1% before a user reported them. 87.5% of removed content had zero views.
“As detailed in our report, 81,518,334 videos were removed globally between April – June for violating our Community Guidelines or Terms of Service, which is less than 1% of all videos uploaded on TikTok.
“Of those videos, we identified and removed 93.0% within 24 hours of being posted and 94.1% before a user reported them. 87.5% of removed content had zero views, which is an improvement since our last report (81.8%).
The platform further restated its commitment to make steady progress in its proactive detection of hateful behavior, bullying, and harassment.
“For example, 73.3% of harassment and bullying videos were removed before any reports compared to 66.2% in the first quarter this year, while 72.9% of hateful behavior videos were removed before any reports compared to 67.3% from January – March.
“This progress is attributable to ongoing improvements to our systems that proactively flag hate symbols, words, and other abuse signals for further review by our safety teams.”
“We encourage people to report accounts or content that may be in violation of our Community Guidelines,” it stated.
For the full report, visit TikTok’s Newsroom.