Ī woman holds a phone with the Tiki's Tok application on the screen in New Delhi, India. India also topped the list in the second half of 2019, the first time TikTok reported details on video removals. Videos removed globally accounted for less than 1% of the total uploaded to the platform, TikTok said.īecause of the coronavirus pandemic, TikTok said it “relied more heavily on technology to detect and automatically remove violating content” in India and other countries. The United States was second, with nearly 10 million videos removed. More TikTok videos were removed in India than any other market. TikTok is owned by ByteDance, a Chinese company.
The report covers the first six months of the year, just before TikTok was banned in India as tensions rose between New Delhi and Beijing. The company took down nearly 37.7 million videos in the country, TikTok said in a transparency report released on Tuesday. More than a third of them were in India alone. TikTok removed roughly 100 million videos from its platform through the first half of 2020 for breaking its rules.
