TikTok removed more than 6 million accounts for breaking its rules
During the second half of 2020, the company also removed more than 28 million videos for violating community standards
The popularity of the social network TikTok increases with the passing of days, however, a few months ago the company decided to toughen some of its privacy and use policies, which led it to eliminate more than 6 million accounts during the second mid-2020, because they violated community norms.
This Wednesday, February 24, the digital platform published a global transparency report during the second half of 2020, which details the measures taken by the company in order for its users to comply with the terms of community and use.
Apart from the accounts, TikTok also removed 89,132,938 videos worldwide, since they violate its rules. However, this figure represents less than 1 % of the total content uploaded on the platform.
The report also details that 92.4 % of the videos were deleted before receiving complaints from other users, while 83.53 % were deleted before they had views and 93.5 % were removed during the 24 hours following their publication.
Regarding the 6,144,040 accounts that were eliminated, the company explained that this was due to breaching the platform’s community rules. The social network also deleted 9,499,881 “spam” accounts and 5,225,800 “spam” videos posted by those accounts.
Source: elsumario