TikTok removed more than four million videos and terminated over 86,000 live sessions in Nigeria during the fourth quarter of 2025 as it intensified efforts to curb harmful content on the platform.
According to TikTok’s Q4 2025 Community Guidelines Enforcement Report, cited by the News Agency of Nigeria, the measures form part of the company’s broader push to strengthen content moderation in one of its fastest-growing markets in Africa.
The figures underscore both the vast volume of content generated by Nigerian users and the growing effectiveness of TikTok’s automated moderation tools, which are increasingly identifying and removing policy-violating content before it reaches users.
Of the 4.02 million videos removed in Nigeria during the fourth quarter of 2025, TikTok said 99.9 per cent were detected and removed proactively before being reported by users, while 98.4 per cent were taken down within 24 hours of being uploaded.
The platform attributed the swift enforcement to continued investments in automated detection systems and rapid-response moderation tools aimed at preventing harmful content from reaching wider audiences.
TikTok also disclosed that it terminated more than 86,000 LIVE sessions in Nigeria for violating its community guidelines.
The action formed part of a broader global enforcement drive in which the platform issued warnings, demonetised content and imposed other penalties on more than 17.7 million LIVE broadcasts and 9.2 million creators found to have breached its monetisation policies worldwide.
Globally, TikTok removed more than 175.3 million videos in the fourth quarter of 2025, accounting for roughly 0.5 per cent of all content uploaded to the platform during the period.
The company said over 152.5 million of the videos were identified through automated detection systems, while about 8.4 million were reinstated following further review.
The platform also intensified efforts to combat harmful and misleading artificial intelligence-generated content. As part of those measures, TikTok continued to require creators to disclose realistic AI-generated images, audio and videos.
In addition, the company expanded the use of automated detection technologies and industry-standard Content Credentials tools to identify, track and moderate AI-generated content, as concerns grow globally over misinformation and digitally manipulated media.
