{"id":63003,"date":"2025-10-16T20:22:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T20:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/tiktok-removes-more-than-189m-videos-from-platform-in-q2"},"modified":"2025-10-16T20:48:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T20:48:43","slug":"tiktok-removes-more-than-189m-videos-from-platform-in-q2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/tiktok-removes-more-than-189m-videos-from-platform-in-q2","title":{"rendered":"TikTok removes more than 189M videos from platform in Q2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>TikTok removed more than 189 million videos in the second quarter due to community guidelines violations, according to a recent statement from the firm.<\/p>\n<p>More than 99% of the removed content was taken down following user reports, while more than 90% of the removed videos were removed without being viewed for April -June.<\/p>\n<p>The report said 80.6% of the removed content was taken down within an average of two hours.<\/p>\n<p>In Tu\u0308rkiye, TikTok removed 4.4 million videos due to community guidelines violations. 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TikTok removed more than 189 million videos in the second quarter due to community guidelines violations, according to a recent statement from the firm. 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