By Muhammad Sal
TikTok has removed more than 3.6 million videos from Nigerian users in the first quarter of 2025 for violating its community guidelines.
This represents a 50% increase from the 2.4 million videos removed in the last quarter of 2024, according to TikTok’s Q1 2025 Community Guidelines Enforcement Report. The platform emphasized that most of these removals happened proactively, 98.4% of the flagged content was taken down before users reported it. Nearly 92% of these videos were removed within 24 hours to maintain a safer and more trustworthy online environment. TikTok also banned over 42,000 live streaming rooms and stopped more than 48,000 streams in Nigeria for breaking rules during this period.
Globally, TikTok removed more than 211 million videos in the first three months of 2025, a broader crackdown on harmful or misleading content. The company also fought fake engagement on its Nigerian platform by deleting 44.7 million fake comments and 4.3 billion fake likes, followers, and follow requests generated by automated systems.
TikTok’s commitment to tightening content moderation comes amid ongoing legal challenges, including lawsuits from multiple U.S. states accusing the platform of harming young users by exploiting addictive content algorithms.
The increased enforcement shows TikTok’s effort to balance a vibrant creator community with the need to protect users from harmful or fake content.
TikTok will likely continue refining its approach to moderation, especially around live streaming and misinformation, as authorities worldwide keep a close watch on social platforms.
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