• TikTok revealed in its Q2 Community Guidelines Enforcement Report that actions were taken due to strict compliance with its regulations.
• According to the platform, 95% of videos were removed within 24 hours and 99.1% were proactively removed before users reported them.
• The US government has claimed that TikTok allows Beijing to collect data and spy on users, but it has denied the accusations.

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TikTok has banned more than 60,000 accounts in Kenya and removed more than 360,000 videos for violating its rules.

TikTok revealed in its Report on the application of community directives for the second quarter this measure was taken due to strict compliance with its regulations.

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During the reporting period, the app banned 60,465 accounts and deleted 57,262 accounts because their owners were suspected of being under 13 years old.

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The report shows that TikTok removed 360,000 videos, representing 0.3% of videos uploaded in Kenya.

According to the platform, 95% of videos were removed within 24 hours and 99.1% were proactively removed before users reported them.

Globally, TikTok has removed 178 million videos, 144 million of them automatically.

“With over a billion people and millions of pieces of content posted to our platform every day, we continue to prioritize and improve TikTok’s automated moderation technology, as this technology enables faster and consistent removal of content. content that violates our rules,” he said.

As a result, automated technology now removes 80% of non-compliant videos, up from 62% a year ago. At the same time, our proactive detection rate has continued to improve; This quarter saw our highest result yet, with 98.2% of videos removed before a user report,” he added.

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TikTok was rebuffed by a federal court in September in its efforts to block a law that requires the app to divest its Chinese ownership. or face a ban in the United States.

A three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington heard arguments from TikTok, its owner ByteDance and a group of users saying the ban violates free speech. and is unconstitutional.

The US government says TikTok allows Beijing to collect data and spy on users. He also says that TikTok is a propaganda broadcast channel. China and the company categorically deny these claims.

Source: TUKO.co.ke