According to TikTok, it removed approximately 12.5 million videos from Pakistan in the first quarter of the current year due to violations of the Community Guidelines.
On July 19, TikTok published its most recent Community Guidelines Enforcement Report covering the period from January to March 2022. The report provides updates on its aim to promote kindness on the platform and support community safety.
The report demonstrates the platform's continued dedication to gain trust by being honest and striving to create a friendly environment. The thorough Community Guidelines are scrupulously adhered to, and efforts are made to encourage genuine discussion across the comment area.
According to a press release from TikTok, Pakistan had the second-highest number of videos taken down for breaking community guidelines between January and March 2022, with 12,490,309 movies being removed.
"Pakistan had a removal rate of 96.5% before any views and 97.3% before 24 hours, according to the most recent Community Guidelines Enforcement Report. TikTok employed a proactive removal rate of 98.5 percent to get rid of 12,490,309 Pakistani videos."
According to the video-sharing website's press release, the analysis also showed that TikTok's safety team concentrated on the Ukraine war after the Russia-Ukraine war and removed 41,191 videos, 87 percent of which broke the platform's rules against harmful misinformation.
The removal rate in Pakistan was 96.5 percent before any views and 97.3 percent before 24 hours, according to the report. In contrast, TikTok utilised a proactive removal rate of 98.5 percent to remove 12,490,309 Pakistani videos.
With these numbers, Pakistan comes in second place globally for the most videos removed in Q1 2022, behind the US, which takes first place with 14,044,224 movies taken down. Globally, 102,305,516 videos were taken down in this quarter, or nearly 1% of all videos.
Because the videos broke TikTok's extensive set of community rules, which are intended to build an experience that values safety, inclusivity, and authenticity, they were taken down.
The research also showed that TikTok's safety team concentrated on the Ukraine war after the Russia-Ukraine war and removed 41,191 videos, 87 percent of which broke the company's rules against harmful misinformation. 49 state-controlled media accounts in Russia were also identified by TikTok in their material. Additionally, the platform found and removed 204 accounts, 6 networks, and other coordinated efforts to sway public opinion and deceive users about their identity.
In the first quarter of 2022, more ads were eliminated overall due to violations of TikTok's advertising laws and guidelines, according to the research.
Digital rights expert Haroon Baloch responded to the development by stating that the social media business is imposing "huge censorship under the guise of content regulation."
"TikTok eliminates more than 138000 videos, according to the data, which reveals the extent of censorship. However, there are problems with the data's transparency because their transparency report lacks disaggregated information about the content's classification and the justifications given by the government "Baloch noted.
He bemoaned how censorship is "growing day by day, especially with the suppression of free expression" in Pakistan.
