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- TikTok says 95.8% of these videos were removed within 24 hours of their posting
- Pakistani authorities have banned video-sharing service several times since 2020
ISLAMABAD: Video-sharing platform TikTok said this week it removed nearly 25 million videos in Pakistan during the first quarter of 2025 for violating its community guidelines, underscoring its efforts to ensure a safe digital space for everyone.
TikTok shared the information in its Community Guidelines Enforcement Report, which covers data from January to March 2025.
“In Q1 2025, TikTok removed a total of 24,954,128 videos in Pakistan,” the video-sharing platform said in a press release on Wednesday.
“Proactive removal rates in Pakistan remained high at 99.4%, with 95% of these videos removed within 24 hours.”
TikTok said globally it removed around 211 million videos worldwide during the quarter, which represents about 0.9% of all content uploaded to the platform.
The platform said that of the total globally removed videos, 184,378,987 were detected and taken down using automated detection technologies, while 7,525,184 videos were reinstated after further review.
“The report also indicates that a significant portion of total removed videos— 30.1%— contained sensitive or mature themes that did not align with TikTok’s content policies,” the statement said.
The platform said that an additional 11.5% of the videos removed globally breached the platform’s safety and civility standards, while 15.6% violated privacy and security guidelines.
“Additionally, 45.5% of the removed videos were flagged as misinformation, and 13.8% of the videos removed were flagged as edited media and AI-generated content,” it added.
This is not the first time that TikTok has removed videos from Pakistan. It took down millions of videos in Pakistan last year also for violating community guidelines.
In the past, Pakistani authorities have banned the video-sharing service several times, with the first ban instituted in October 2020 over what was described as widespread complaints about allegedly “immoral, obscene, and vulgar” content on the app.
The service has been prohibited from operating in the country thrice for more than 15 months since then. In November 2021, a Pakistani court finally reversed the ban after TikTok assured the government it would control the spread of objectionable content.