TikTok releases Q1 2025 enforcement report, removes nearly 1.9m videos in Nepal

KATHMANDU: TikTok has released its Q1 2025 Community Guidelines Enforcement Report, highlighting its ongoing commitment to creating a safe digital space for users. The report, covering data from January to March 2025, details the proactive steps the platform has taken to identify and remove content that breaches its Community Guidelines.

In Q1 2025, TikTok removed 1,876,563 videos in Nepal. Proactive removal rates in Nepal remained high at 99.6%, with 97.8% of videos taken down within 24 hours.

Globally, TikTok removed 211 million videos in this quarter, representing about 0.9% of all content uploaded to the platform. Of these, 184,378,987 were detected and removed using automated detection technologies, while 7,525,184 were reinstated after further human review. The global proactive removal rate stood at 99.0%, with 94.3% of flagged content removed within 24 hours of posting.

The report indicates that 30.1% of removed videos contained sensitive or mature themes that did not align with TikTok’s content policies. A further 11.5% breached safety and civility standards, while 15.6% violated privacy and security guidelines. Additionally, 45.5% were flagged as misinformation and 13.8% as edited media or AI-generated content.

TikTok’s periodic publication of the Community Guidelines Enforcement Report offers insight into the scale and nature of content and account actions, underscoring the company’s commitment to full transparency. For detailed insights into the Q1 2025 report and to learn more about TikTok’s content guidelines, tools and policies, visit TikTok’s Transparency Centre.

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Its mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok’s global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and its offices include New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul and Tokyo.