TikTok eliminated over 16.5 million movies throughout the Center East and North Africa (MENA) area through the first quarter of 2025 for violating its Group Pointers, the platform mentioned in its newest enforcement report published on 26 June.
The report, which covers enforcement information from January to March 2025, outlines TikTok’s moderation efforts in 5 MENA nations: Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Morocco.
In Egypt, greater than 2.9 million movies had been taken down for violating group guidelines. Of those, 99.6 p.c had been proactively eliminated earlier than being reported by customers, and 94.3 p.c had been eliminated inside 24 hours of being posted.
TikTok additionally elevated enforcement on dwell content material in Egypt, banning almost 350,000 LIVE hosts and interrupting almost 600,000 livestreams throughout the identical interval.
Iraq recorded the very best variety of video removals within the area, with over 10 million violative movies taken down. The platform additionally eliminated over one million movies in Morocco and the UAE, and 1.3 million in Lebanon, every with proactive elimination charges of over 98 p.c.
Throughout all 5 nations, TikTok disrupted over 1.5 million livestreams and banned almost 850,000 LIVE hosts through the yr’s first quarter.
This comes within the wake of Egypt’s Nationwide Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) announcing on 2 August that it had given TikTok a three-month deadline to align its content material with “Egyptian social and ethical requirements.”
The choice follows a collection of arrests in recent times concentrating on feminine content material creators accused of violating household values.
Whereas the platform stays extensively fashionable, lawmakers have referred to as for stricter laws to deal with content material they deem dangerous to societal norms, a transfer that has raised issues amongst human rights advocates concerning the broad utility of morality-related fees.