TikTok removed over 20 million videos from Pakistan in the first quarter of 2024 over violations of its community guidelines, according to the company.
In its latest Community Guidelines Enforcement Report, TikTok has disclosed taking down about 20,207,878 between January and March 2024. According to the report, 93.9 per cent of the videos were removed within 24 hours of posting, while the proactive removal rate stood at 99.4 per cent.
The volume of videos removed has significantly risen in comparison to the last quarter of 2023, when TikTok took down 18.5 million videos from the Pakistani market.
The United States (US) leads the list with more than 35 million videos removed, followed by Pakistan.
Globally, TikTok removed 166,997,307 videos, which amount to 0.9 per cent of the total volume of content posted to the short-video platform. The company removed and filtered about 976,479,946, and deleted 21,639,414 accounts belonging to users under the age of 13.
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