Why TikTok Removed Over 4M Videos, Disrupted More Than 86000 LIVE Rooms In Q4 2025

TikTok has released its Q4 2025 Community Guidelines Enforcement Report, highlighting its continuous commitment to fostering a safe and trusted space for its users.

In the fourth quarter of 2025, TikTok removed 4,021,252 million videos for violating its Community Guidelines in Nigeria. 99.9% of these videos were proactively removed before anyone reported them, while 98.4% were taken down within 24 hours of posting. These figures underscore TikTok’s continued investment in advanced detection systems and rapid response mechanisms designed to limit the spread of harmful content.

Globally, TikTok removed a total of 175,302,085 videos during the quarter, representing about 0.5% of all content uploaded on the platform. Of these, 152,580,933 videos were detected and taken down using automated detection technologies and 8,360,780 videos were reinstated after further review. The platform recorded a 99.1% proactive removal rate, with 93.4% of flagged content removed within 24 hours of posting.

TikTok LIVE

In the latest report, TikTok emphasizes its commitment to keeping the TikTok LIVE experience safe. The platform has noted a further rise in the number of LIVE streams being interrupted and the number of LIVE monetisation enforcement actions (both demonetisation and warnings).

In Nigeria, TikTok interrupted over 86 000 Live rooms for violation of guidelines. Globally, TikTok took action, including warnings and demonetisation, on 17,714,756 LIVE sessions and 9,277,720 LIVE creators for violating the platform’s LIVE monetisation guidelines. Warnings serve as an opportunity to educate creators when their content may breach LIVE monetisation policies, allowing them to make necessary changes.

AI-Generated Content Removals

TikTok aims to protect its community by prohibiting and removing AI-generated content (AIGC) that is harmful or misleading, and requiring people to label realistic AIGC. In Quarter 4 of 2025, TikTok removed just over 93 000 videos under our policy for edited media and AI-generated content (AIGC) for violating community guidelines in South Africa. The platform requires creators to label all AI-generated content that contains realistic images, audio, and video. To bolster the platform’s AI-generated content labels, earlier this year, TikTok tested a solution called “invisible watermarking.” The platform requires people to label realistic AI-generated content on TikTok and layer multiple strategies to apply that rule. This includes labelling tools offered to creators as well as automated detection models. TikTok uses a cross-industry technology called C2PA Content Credentials, which embeds metadata into content that lets TikTok’s Trust & Safety teams—as well as other platforms who use C2PA—know when something is AI-generated. These efforts helped label over 1.3 billion videos to date.

Committed to Safety and Integrity

TikTok remains committed to inspiring creativity and bringing joy while prioritising the safety and well-being of its Nigerian community. By combining advanced automated moderation tools with the expertise of thousands of trust and safety professionals worldwide, TikTok continues to enforce its Community Guidelines consistently and at scale, addressing harmful content such as misinformation, hate speech, and other policy violations. The platform also continues to work closely with organisations such as the Office of the National Security Advisor and civil society organisations, to drive education on safer digital spaces.

The January – June 2025 Government Removals Request is available and can be accessed here.

The full Q4 2025 Community Guidelines Enforcement Report is available and can be accessed here.