TikTok removes 42 lakh videos from Bangladesh in Q4 2022

Popular short video platform TikTok removed around 42 lakh videos from Bangladesh, according to its latest Community Guidelines Enforcement Report for Q4 2022.  

It has been done upholding its commitment to a multi-pronged approach to stop misinformation on the platform and it reflects the platform’s ongoing commitment to earn people’s trust, said a press release.

In the fourth quarter of 2022, at least 85,680,819 videos were removed globally, which represents about 0.6 percent of all videos uploaded to TikTok.

A total of 46,836,047 videos were removed by automation, while 5,477,549 videos were restored, it said.
Bangladesh saw the removal of 4,254,667 videos for violating Community Guidelines in Q4 2022.

In addition to removing accounts for violating Community Guidelines, the platform also removed accounts determined to be spam, along with spam videos posted by those accounts.

It also took proactive measures to prevent spam accounts from being created through automated means.
In Q4, 95 percent of the violent videos in Bangladesh were removed before anyone could view them and 96.8 percent of such videos were removed within a day.

The proactive removal rate in Q4 2022 was 99.5 percent. Additionally, 17,877,316 accounts that were suspected users aged under 13 were removed globally in Q4.