Social media network TikTok has revealed that it banned over 60,000 accounts from the platform during the second quarter of 2024.
In its Q2 2024 Community Guidelines Enforcement Report for Kenya released on Wednesday, November 13, 2024, TikTok says that the move followed heightened observance of its community guidelines.
A total of 60,465 accounts were banned for violating TikTok’s Community Guidelines, with 57,262 accounts being removed because they were suspected to be under the age of 13.
Further, the report reveals that over 360,000 videos were removed from TikTok in Kenya, which is 0.3 per cent of the total videos uploaded in the country.
According to the platform, 99.1 per cent of these videos were proactively removed before users reported them, with 95 per cent taken down within 24 hours.
The report shows that the platform removed over 178 million videos globally, with 144 million of those removed through automation.
“These technical advancements significantly reduce the volume of content that human moderators need to review, thereby minimizing their exposure to violative material. With a proactive detection rate now at 98.2 per cent globally,” the report says.
The report further shows that in the second quarter of 2024, TikTok disrupted 14 covert influence networks, comprising 2,240 accounts with a total of 1,702,277 followers.
“In addition to these new network disruptions, we removed 9,270 accounts associated with previously disrupted networks attempting to re-establish their presence,” the platform adds.
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The platform says automated technology now removes 80 per cent of violative videos, up from 62 per cent a year ago.
“At the same time, our proactive detection rate has continued to improve; this quarter saw our highest result so far at 98.2 per cent of videos removed before a user report. And, the proportion of total videos restored after removal has decreased by more than half from a year ago,” TikTok added.