TikTok Removed 4 Million Videos, Shut Down 86,000 Live Sessions In Nigeria In Q4 2025
TikTok intensified content moderation in Nigeria, removing four million videos and shutting down 86,000 guideline-violating live streams in Q4 2025.
TikTok intensified content moderation in Nigeria, removing four million videos and shutting down 86,000 guideline-violating live streams in Q4 2025.
TikTok removed more than four million videos and shut down over 86,000 live sessions in Nigeria during the fourth quarter of 2025 as the platform intensified efforts to tackle harmful content in one of its fastest-growing African markets.
According to TikTok’s Q4 2025 Community Guidelines Enforcement Report released on Tuesday, a total of 4.02 million videos were taken down in Nigeria between October and December 2025, highlighting both the volume of content uploaded to the platform and the company’s increasing reliance on automated moderation systems.
The report showed that 99.9 per cent of the videos removed in Nigeria were detected and taken down proactively before being reported by users, while 98.4 per cent were removed within 24 hours of being posted.
TikTok said the speed and scale of the removals reflected its growing investment in automated detection technologies and rapid-response systems aimed at limiting the spread of harmful content.
On the platform’s LIVE feature, TikTok said it interrupted more than 86,000 live rooms in Nigeria for violating its community guidelines.
The enforcement formed part of a broader global crackdown that saw the company issue warnings, demonetise content and take other actions against more than 17.7 million LIVE sessions and 9.2 million creators who breached its monetisation policies worldwide.
Globally, TikTok removed more than 175.3 million videos during the quarter, representing approximately 0.5 per cent of all content uploaded to the platform.
The company disclosed that more than 152.5 million of the removed videos were identified through automated detection systems, while about 8.4 million videos were later reinstated following further review.
TikTok also reported significant progress in tackling harmful and misleading artificial intelligence-generated content.
The platform said it continued to require creators to label realistic AI-generated images, audio and video content, while deploying automated detection tools and industry-standard Content Credentials technology to identify such material.
According to the report, these measures contributed to the labelling of more than 1.3 billion AI-generated videos globally during the quarter, underscoring the growing volume of synthetic content being shared online.
TikTok explained that warnings issued to creators are intended to educate users rather than immediately punish them, allowing opportunities to correct content that may violate platform rules before stronger enforcement measures are applied.
Reaffirming its commitment to online safety, the company said it would continue combining advanced moderation technologies with the work of thousands of trust and safety professionals across the world.
TikTok further stated that it would maintain collaboration with government agencies in Nigeria, including the Office of the National Security Adviser, as well as civil society organisations, to promote safer online spaces and combat harmful content.
“The company said its enforcement approach is built around speed, scale and accuracy, with automated systems handling the bulk of detections while human reviewers handle appeals and edge cases that require additional context.”
The latest figures represent a significant increase from previous enforcement actions in the country.
In December 2024, TikTok announced that it had removed 2.1 million videos uploaded by Nigerian users during the third quarter of 2024 for violating its content policies.
At the time, the platform said Nigeria ranked among the top 50 countries globally responsible for policy-violating content, with those countries accounting for about 90 per cent of all global content removals during the reporting period.
TikTok said the removed content violated one or more of its community guidelines covering areas such as integrity and authenticity, privacy and security, mental and behavioural health, safety, and civility.
