TikTok removes more than 100 million videos for violating the platform’s rules
The social network published its third "Transparency Report" on Tuesday, for the first half of 2020, which reflects the elimination of the aforementioned videos
The music social network TikTok owned by the Chinese Bytedance has published this Tuesday its third Transparency Report, which shows that the company has removed a total of 104,543,719 videos worldwide for violating the Community Rules or the Terms of Service from the platform.
This figure represents less than one percent of all videos posted on TikTok, of which he removed 96.4 percent before they were reported and 90.3 percent before they received views. However, during the first six months of this year, quite a few more videos have been removed than between July 1st and December 31st, 2019, dates on which TikTok claimed to have removed more than 49 million footage.
Of the videos removed between January 1st and June 30 of this year, about 31st percent were removed for showing sexual content or nudity, while 22.3 percent were removed for lower security and 19.6 percent for showing illegal activities. The rest of the videos were removed for showing dangerous acts, suicides, violent content, bullying or hate speech.
In terms of countries, India has been the one where the company has withdrawn the most videos, with a total of 37,682,924, followed by the United States, with more than nine million, Pakistan, with more than six million, Brazil, with more than 5.5 million and the United Kingdom, with nearly three million videos.
The report also shows that TikTok has received a total of 1,768 requests for information from users by the security forces and bodies of 42 countries, with India being the country that has requested it the most, followed by the United States.
Likewise, the social network has received during the first half of the year 135 requests from government agencies to restrict or eliminate content from 15 countries, where India once again leads the list, followed by Russia.
For its part, TikTok has also analyzed a total of 10,625 notifications to remove content protected by copyright worldwide, of which 89.6 percent of the content was removed.
Source: dpa
