TikTok, over policy violation, removes 2.4 million Nigerian-owned videos
TikTok, over policy violation, removes 2.4 million Nigerian-owned videos
Tiktok has removed 2.4 million videos posted by Nigerian users in the fourth quarter of 2024 for violating its content policy. TikTok, owned by Bytedance, revealed that Nigeria was among the top 50 countries where videos violating its policies emanated from in Q4.
The platform, which disclosed this in its latest Community Guidelines Enforcement report, which indicated that a total of 153 million videos were removed globally in the period under review, noted that the highest number of violations were recorded in the United States, with 8.5 million videos yanked off the platform in the period under review.
The company said the top 50 markets in terms of policy violations accounted for approximately 90 per cent of all content removals for the quarter. The removed content was said to have violated one or more of TikTok’s policies, which center around integrity and authenticity, privacy and security, mental and behavioural health, safety, and civility, among others.
In the period under review, TikTok said it removed a total of 211.5 million accounts discovered to be either fake or owned by people suspected to be under 13 years of age.
TikTok explained that fake accounts constituted the largest number of deleted accounts for the period. According to the report, a total of 185.3 million fake accounts were removed.
In addition, 20.5 million accounts suspected to be owned by users under the age of 13 were removed, while 5.6 million accounts were removed for other reasons not stated.
The firm noted: “We remain vigilant in our efforts to detect external threats and safeguard the platform from fake accounts and engagement. These threats persistently probe and attack our systems, leading to occasional fluctuations in the reported metrics within these areas.
“In Q4 2024, we also updated the way we classify fake likes and followers removed over time, which contributed to some of the overall increases observed in these categories.
