TikTok removes over 500,000 videos in Kenya to enhance user safety

TikTok has removed more than 500,000 videos in Kenya as part of its ongoing efforts to strengthen content moderation and enhance user safety. The move underscores the platform’s commitment to enforcing community guidelines and creating a safer digital space for its growing Kenyan audience

The popular social media platform released its Q3 2025 Community Guidelines Enforcement Report, showcasing its ongoing commitment to creating a safe digital space for its users.  

The report, which covers data from July to September 2025, details the proactive steps TikTok has taken to identify and remove content that violates its Community Guidelines, ensuring a positive experience for its global community.  

In the third quarter of 2025, TikTok removed more than 580,000 videos in Kenya for violating its Community Guidelines. Of these, 99.7% were proactively removed before anyone reported them, and 94.6% were removed within 24 hours of posting. 

Additionally, the third quarter of 2025 saw around 90,000 Live sessions interrupted for not following platform content guidelines representing 1%  of LIVE streams in this time.  

Globally, TikTok removed a total of 204,534,932 videos during Q3 2025,  representing about 0.7% of all content uploaded to the platform. Of this content, 99.3% was proactively removed before being reported, while 94.8% was removed within 24 hours. 

This is one of the highest rates ever recorded by  TikTok for rapid content removal. Through our continued investment in AI moderation technologies, a record 91% of this violative content is now removed via automated technologies, ensuring consistency and speed. To protect TikTok’s integrity this quarter, the platform has removed more than 118 million fake accounts. 

In addition, we removed more than 22 million accounts that were suspected to be under the age of 13. 

By integrating advanced automated moderation technologies with the expertise of thousands of trust and safety professionals, TikTok ensures swift and consistent enforcement of content that violates its Community Guidelines. 

This approach is vital in ensuring that we provide a safe platform for our community, as we uphold our policies against harmful content, including misinformation, hate speech, and other violations. 

Keeping our Community Safe 

Time and Well-being Features 

In November, we announced a new Time and Well-being space that includes more features to help 

people relax and build mindful digital habits. 

We also launched four new Well-being Missions. These are short, fun tasks designed to help our community, and teens in particular, use technology with  greater purpose and confidence. 

The regular publication of the Community Guidelines Enforcement Report offers insights into the scale and nature of content and account actions, underscoring TikTok’s commitment to full transparency.