TikTok said on Monday it removed 750,185 videos and interrupted 80,640 livestreams in Kenya between April and June for breaches of its community guidelines.
The short-video platform said it removed 99.8% of the Kenyan videos before users reported them and took down 93.8% within 24 hours of posting. It did not disclose how many videos were uploaded in Kenya during the quarter.
TikTok also removed more than 46,000 accounts in Kenya that it suspected belonged to children under 13, compared with more than 26 million such accounts worldwide.
Nearly 11,000 videos in Kenya were taken down under TikTok’s policy on edited media and AI-generated content. The company did not say how many of those videos were made using AI. TikTok requires creators to label realistic AI-generated material and has launched an in-app hub in Kenya to help users identify such content.
Globally, TikTok removed about 188.3 million videos in the quarter, or roughly 0.4% of the more than 42.2 billion uploaded. Automated systems accounted for 97.4% of removals, the highest share the company has reported. TikTok reinstated about 6.3 million videos following successful appeals.
Separately, TikTok said it took action on about 47.2 million livestreams and 26.8 million creators worldwide under its livestream monetisation rules. Those actions included warnings and demonetisation.
