TikTok Bans Several Kenyan Accounts, Pulls Down 450,000 Videos

The video-sharing platform also stopped over 19 million live sessions...
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TikTok has announced that it removed over 450,000 Kenyan videos and banned 43,000 accounts between January and March 2025 due to violations of its community guidelines. This action is part of the platform's commitment to maintaining a safe and trustworthy environment by addressing harmful content.
- Of the 450,000 videos removed, an impressive 92.1 percent were taken down before or within 24 hours of being viewed.
- TikTok employs a combination of advanced automated moderation technologies and thousands of trust and safety professionals for content enforcement.
- The crackdown also extended to TikTok Live sessions, with **19 million live rooms** stopped globally during the same period.
- TikTok has partnered with Childline Kenya to provide expert support for young users reporting sensitive content, and advises users to report violations via the TikTok Help Centre.
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