TikTok removed more than four million videos and shut down over 86,000 live sessions in Nigeria during the fourth quarter of 2025 as part of intensified efforts to curb harmful content on the platform.
The figures were disclosed in TikTok’s Q4 2025 Community Guidelines Enforcement Report released on Tuesday. The report highlights the company’s growing reliance on automated moderation systems to identify and remove content that violates its policies.
According to the report, 4.02 million videos were taken down in Nigeria during the period under review. Of that number, 99.9 per cent were detected and removed proactively before any user complaint was made, while 98.4 per cent were removed within 24 hours of being posted.
TikTok said the speed and scale of the removals demonstrate its increasing investment in advanced detection technologies and rapid-response systems aimed at limiting the spread of harmful content.
The platform also disrupted more than 86,000 live sessions in Nigeria for violating community guidelines. The action formed part of a broader global enforcement campaign that saw warnings, demonetisation measures and other sanctions imposed on more than 17.7 million live sessions and 9.2 million creators found to have breached monetisation policies worldwide.
Globally, TikTok removed more than 175.3 million videos during the quarter, representing approximately 0.5 per cent of all content uploaded to the platform. More than 152.5 million of the removed videos were detected through automated systems, while about 8.4 million were later restored following further review.
The report also highlighted the platform’s intensified efforts to address harmful and misleading artificial intelligence-generated content. TikTok said it continued to require creators to label realistic AI-generated images, audio and video while deploying automated detection tools and Content Credentials technology to identify such content.
As a result, more than 1.3 billion AI-generated videos were labelled globally during the quarter, reflecting the growing volume of synthetic content shared on the platform.
TikTok noted that warnings issued to creators are intended to educate users and provide opportunities to correct potential violations before stricter enforcement measures are applied.
The company reaffirmed its commitment to maintaining a safe digital environment through a combination of advanced moderation technology and the work of thousands of trust and safety professionals worldwide.
It also pledged to continue collaborating with Nigerian government agencies, including the Office of the National Security Adviser, as well as civil society organisations, to promote safer online spaces and combat harmful content.
According to the company, its content moderation strategy is built on speed, scale and accuracy, with automated systems handling the majority of detections while human reviewers assess appeals and complex cases requiring additional context.
The latest figures represent a significant increase from previous enforcement actions. In the third quarter of 2024, TikTok removed 2.1 million videos uploaded by users in Nigeria for violating its content policies.
The platform had previously reported that Nigeria ranked among the top 50 countries globally for originating content that breached community guidelines. Those countries accounted for approximately 90 per cent of all content removals worldwide during the period.
TikTok said the removed content violated one or more of its policies relating to integrity and authenticity, privacy and security, mental and behavioural health, safety, and civility.
