TikTok removes over 12 million videos from Pakistan in just three months

The popular video-sharing application TikTok has removed over 12 million videos from Pakistan in a period of just three months.

According to sources, the reason for this has been that they violated ‘TikTok’s community guidelines.’ These figures were stated by the application in a report, titled the ‘Community Guidelines Enforcement Report.’ In the report, details about the volume and nature of the content on the platform were also mentioned briefly.

TikTok removes 12 million videos from Pakistan

In the report, it was visible that Pakistan had the second-highest number of videos taken down by the application. However, the United States remained the country with the highest number of videos removed, with almost 13 million in the same time span.

It is important to mention here, that although the number may seem large by itself, it is a slight improvement from last quarter when 14 million videos were removed. In this quarter, around 85,680,819 videos have been removed from the platform, which amounts to 0.6% of all the videos uploaded on the platform. However, more than 5 million videos were also restored on the application.

While going into detail about the video removals from Pakistan, TikTok mentioned that the country saw the removal of over 12 million videos in Q4 2022, for violating guidelines. Around 89.7% of the violent videos were removed before anyone could view them, and 95.5% of such videos were removed in a day. The report also added that the proactive removal rate in Q4 was 98.8%.

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