One of the widely used social media apps in Pakistan where short videos are made known as TikTok. TikTok has released its latest Community Guidelines Enforcement Report for Q1 2022 (January – March 2022), including updates on its commitment to support the safety of the community and foster kindness on the platform.
According to the report, Pakistan had a removal rate of 96.5 percent before any views and 97.3 percent before 24 hours. Whereas, a 98.5 percent proactive removal rate was used by TikTok to remove 12,490,309 Pakistani videos, as Pakistanis violated their guidelines.
Pakistan ranks second in the world for the largest volume of videos taken down in Q1 2022, following the US which ranks first with 14,044,224 videos removed. In this quarter, 102,305,516 videos were removed globally, which represents about 1% of all videos uploaded to TikTok.
The videos were removed because they violated TikTok’s community guidelines.
TikTok added that in the wake of the Russia-Ukraine war, the safety team focused on the conflict and removed 41,191 videos, 87% of which violated its policies against harmful misinformation.
