Citizens' Gavel Sues TikTok Over Exploitative Content

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TikTok Ranks Nigeria Among Top 50 Countries for Content Violations, Deletes 2.4M Videos - Tech

TikTok has removed 2.4 million videos from Nigeria in the last quarter of 2024 for breaching its content policies.  The social media giant, in its latest Community Guidelines Enforcement report, placed Nigeria among the top 50 countries with the highest number of violations. The scale of enforcement was global—153 million videos were taken down in total. The United States topped the list with 8.5 million videos deleted.  TikTok stated that these…

Citizens' Gavel Sues TikTok Over Exploitative Content

Citizens Gavel, a civic tech organisation advocating for digital safety, has taken legal action against TikTok for failing to implement adequate safeguards against a disturbing trend which has emerged on the platform, shifting it away from its original purpose as a creative space into a hotspot for exploitative content involving minors. According to Sylvester Agih, a Senior Legal Analyst at Citizens Gavel, the organisation has been monitoring Ti…

TikTok Removed Over 8 Million Harmful Videos in Sub-Saharan Africa in Q4 2024

TikTok, the Short-form video hosting platform, has revealed that it removed more than 8 million harmful videos from its platform in Q4 2024 in sub-Saharan Africa. This is a 14.06% increase compared to the 7.5 million videos the platform removed in Q3 2024. Notably, TikTok says 99.5% of these videos were removed before any user … The post TikTok Removed Over 8 Million Harmful Videos in Sub-Saharan Africa in Q4 2024 appeared first on TechTrendsKE.