*Removes 3,780,426 videos in April and June, 2025
For the first time, TikTok has shared data related to its actions to enforce Live Monetization guidelines, amidst surge in number of persons going live during sexual intercourse.
It shared the data during its West Africa Safety Summit in Dakar, Senegal, held in partnership with AfricTivistes.
In the second quarter of 2025, TikTok took action, including warnings and demonetization, on 2,321,813 Live sessions and 1,040,356 Live creators for violating Live monetization guidelines.
In Nigeria and during the same period, TikTok banned 49,512 Live sessions.
The Summit brought together senior government officials, policy experts, NGO’s, regulators, media and industry leaders from varying West African nations. Delegates from Nigeria, Senegal, Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Chad and Ethiopia attended the Summit to cement collaborations that will strengthen user protection, bolster content moderation frameworks specific to the region’s challenges.
The summit marks a pivotal moment for TikTok’s regional safety efforts and its commitment to upholding global safety standards across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
The gathering opened a collaborative environment where experts jointly addressed online safety challenges, shared local insights, and discussed strategies for building stronger safety structures that advance collective action under TikTok’s #SaferTogether initiative.
TikTok’s Outreach and Partnerships Manager for Sub-Saharan Africa, Duduzile Mkhize, emphasised the platform’s commitment to enhancing user security by gathering stakeholder insights and ideas.
Mkhize stressed: “While global, we remain hyper-local in our every day efforts. The dialogue at this Summit is invaluable because only through insights sharing and collaboration with policymakers and local partners across West Africa can we prevent a fragmented and insecure digital environment. United action can help us guarantee a safe space for our community to discover, create, and connect responsibly.”
One such pivotal partner is Nigeria’s Dr Akinola Olojo, expert on preventing and countering violent extremism, currently serving on TikTok’s Sub-Saharan Africa Safety Advisory Council (SSA SAC). Dr Olojo’s research has focused extensively on violent extremism across sub-Saharan Africa.
“As a member of the TikTok Safety Advisory Council, I believe the convening of various stakeholders in Dakar, sharing insights for collaborative action proves that the work we do alongside TikTok is not in vain. In today’s interconnected world, we must move beyond reactive measures and continue to build proactive systems that empower communities, especially in Africa, to resist radicalisation and leverage online spaces for positive social impact.”
This effort aligns with TikTok’s global moderation impact, where over 189 million videos were removed worldwide during the same quarter, representing just 0.7% of all content uploaded. Out of the total number of videos removed, 163.9 million videos were enforced by AI-driven moderation systems. Looking at the total number of video removals, globally, 99.1% of these removals were detected proactively and 94.4% were taken down within 24 hours. To help protect TikTok’s integrity, in this quarter, the platform has removed 76,991,660 fake accounts, along with the additional 25,904,708 accounts that were suspected to be under the age of 13.
Despite these high-volume interventions, harmful content still represents a very small portion of what users post. Globally, less than 1% of content uploaded to TikTok is found to violate its community guidelines, a testament to its continued prioritisation of proactive safeguards.
TikTok released its Quarter 2 2025 Community Guidelines Enforcement Report (CGER) showcasing its ongoing commitment to creating a safe digital space for its users. The report, which covers data from April to June 2025, details the proactive steps TikTok continues to take to identify and remove content that violates its Community Guidelines, ensuring a positive experience for its global community.
Between April and June 2025, 3,780,426 videos were removed from the platform in Nigeria, for violating the platform’s Community Guidelines. Notably, 98.7% of these were removed before they were viewed and 91.9% removed within 24 hours of being posted.
