TikTok has revealed that more than 820,000 videos were removed from its platform in Kenya during the final quarter of 2025 as part of ongoing efforts to improve online safety and enforce community standards.
According to the platform’s latest Community Guidelines Enforcement Report released on May 19, 2026, a total of 820,552 videos originating from Kenya were taken down for violating platform rules between October and December 2025.
The report shows that the majority of the flagged content never reached users before action was taken. TikTok disclosed that 99.9 percent of the videos were proactively detected and removed before being reported by users, highlighting the company’s growing reliance on automated moderation systems.
Additionally, 98.4 percent of the violating videos were removed within 24 hours after being uploaded, signaling faster response times in dealing with harmful or inappropriate content.
Beyond video removals, the platform also cracked down on thousands of accounts in Kenya found to be breaching its policies.
TikTok confirmed that 108,752 accounts were banned during the same period. A large number of these accounts, approximately 93,704, were suspected to belong to users under the age of 13, which goes against the platform’s minimum age requirements.
The move reflects increasing global pressure on social media companies to strengthen protections for younger users and create safer digital spaces for children and teenagers online.
Globally, TikTok reported removing more than 175 million videos in the fourth quarter of 2025, representing roughly 0.5 percent of all uploaded content during the period.
The company said over 152 million videos were identified and removed through automated moderation technology, while more than 8 million videos were later restored following additional reviews.
TikTok added that its global proactive removal rate stood at 99.1 percent, with 93.4 percent of policy-violating content removed within 24 hours of being posted.
The social media giant says it continues to combine artificial intelligence moderation systems with thousands of trust and safety professionals worldwide to combat harmful content, including hate speech, misinformation, harassment, and other violations of its community policies.
As conversations around digital safety continue to grow globally, the latest figures offer a glimpse into the scale of content moderation efforts taking place behind the scenes on one of the world’s most popular social media platforms.
