TikTok publishes Q3 2025 enforcement report, removes over 2.8m videos in Nepal, over 204m globally

KATHMANDU: TikTok has published its Q3 2025 Community Guidelines Enforcement Report, detailing the platform’s content‑removal activity from July to September 2025 and underscoring its efforts to maintain a safer digital environment.

The report shows TikTok removed 2,829,612 videos in Nepal for Community Guidelines violations in Q3 2025. Proactive removal rates in the country remained high at 99.7%, with 98.0% of those videos taken down within 24 hours of posting.

Globally, TikTok removed 204,534,932 videos in the quarter, equivalent to about 0.7% of all content uploaded to the platform. Of the videos removed worldwide, 186,608,081 were detected and taken down using automated detection technologies, while 8,950,735 were reinstated after further review. The company reports a global proactive removal rate of 99.3%, with 94.8% of flagged content removed within 24 hours.

To strengthen platform integrity, TikTok says it removed 118,618,399 fake accounts during the quarter and an additional 22,226,542 accounts that were suspected to belong to users under the age of 13.

The report provides a breakdown of the types of content removed. Some 30% of removed videos contained sensitive or mature themes that breached TikTok’s policies, 15.7% violated safety and civility standards, and 2.7% breached privacy and security guidelines. A further 32.9% of removed videos were flagged as misinformation, while 34.4% were identified as edited media or AI‑generated content.

TikTok said the periodic publication of its Community Guidelines Enforcement Report offers transparency on the scale and nature of its content and account actions. The company directs readers to its Transparency Centre for detailed insights into the Q3 2025 report and information on its content guidelines, tools and policies.

TikTok describes itself as the leading destination for short‑form mobile video, with a mission to inspire creativity and bring joy. The company’s global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and it maintains offices in New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul and Tokyo.