TikTok removed 2.82 million videos in Nepal

By A Staff Reporter,Kathmandu, Jan. 21: TikTok has released its third quarter 2025 Community Guidelines Enforcement Report, revealing significant efforts to monitor and remove content that violates its policies.

The report, which covers July to September 2025, underscores TikTok’s ongoing push to maintain a safe digital environment for users in Nepal and worldwide.

In the third quarter of 2025, TikTok removed a total of 2,829,612 videos in Nepal for Community Guidelines violations. 

Proactive removal rates from July to September 2025 remained high at 99.7 per cent, with 98 per cent of these videos removed within 24 hours.

Globally, TikTok removed about 204 million videos worldwide in this quarter, which represents about 0.7 per cent of all content uploaded to the platform. 

Of the removed videos, 186,608,081 videos were detected and taken down using automated detection technologies, while 8,950,735 videos were reinstated after further review. 

The proactive removal rate stood at 99.3 per cent, with 94.8 per cent of the flagged content removed within 24 hours of posting. 

To improve TikTok's integrity, in this quarter, the platform has removed 118,618,399 fake accounts, along with the additional 22,226,542 accounts that were suspected to be under the age of 13.

The report also indicates that a significant portion of the total removed videos—30 per cent—contained sensitive or mature themes that did not align with TikTok’s content policies. 

An additional 15.7 per cent of videos breached the platform’s safety and civility standards, while 2.7 per cent violated privacy and security guidelines. 

Additionally, 32.9 per cent of the removed videos were flagged as misinformation, and 34.4 per cent of the videos removed were flagged as edited media and AI-generated content, according to TikTok.