TikTok Removed 49 Million Videos in Second Half of 2019

By contrast, YouTube removed around 14.7 million videos during the same period

TikTok removed more than 49 million videos for violating its content policies in the second half of 2019, according to the company’s latest transparency report released this morning.

The short-form video site “proactively caught and removed” 98.2% of those videos before a user reported them, with 89.4% removed before they were seen by any users, the report said. Those 49 million removed videos represent “less than 1% of all the videos our users created.”

The report comes as the app, which is owned by China-based company ByteDance, faces intense scrutiny from governments around the world—including the United States—over national security concerns.

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