TikTok removed over 3.6 million videos from its platform in Nigeria between January and March 2025 due to violations of its Community Guidelines. This represents a significant 50% increase in removals compared to the previous quarter, highlighting TikTok’s commitment to user safety. These figures were released in TikTok’s Q1 2025 Community Guidelines Enforcement Report, highlighting the platform’s commitment to promoting a safe, respectful, and trustworthy digital environment.
The report shows a 98.4% proactive detection rate, meaning content was removed before it was reported. Additionally, 92.1% of violating videos were removed within 24 hours. These statistics reflect TikTok’s ongoing investment in advanced technology, innovative tools, and expert moderation teams to enhance enforcement systems and quickly detect and remove harmful content.
While millions of positive, educational, and entertaining videos are uploaded daily, TikTok continually strengthens its ability to identify and remove content that violates its guidelines. The recent removal figures represent a small fraction of the total videos posted by the Nigerian community each quarter, underscoring the prevalence of positive and empowering content on the platform.
In March 2025, TikTok also took action against 129 accounts in West Africa linked to covert operations.
TikTok LIVE allows creators and viewers to connect and build communities in real-time. To ensure a safe experience, TikTok has intensified its LIVE Monetization Guidelines, clarifying what content is ineligible for monetization.
Enforcement of LIVE content remains a top priority. In Q1 2025, TikTok banned 42,196 LIVE rooms and interrupted 48,156 streams in Nigeria for violating community guidelines.
Globally, more than 211 million videos were removed in Q1 2025, an increase from 153 million in the previous quarter, with over 184 million removed through automation. The platform’s global proactive detection rate reached 99%, demonstrating continuous improvements in identifying and removing harmful content swiftly and effectively.
Despite these high-volume interventions, harmful content makes up a very small portion of user-posted content. Less than 1% of all content uploaded globally to TikTok violates its community guidelines, a testament to the platform’s ongoing prioritization of proactive safeguards.
In June, TikTok Africa hosted its “My Kind of TikTok Digital Well-being Summit,” bringing together experts, NGOs, creators, media, and industry leaders from across Sub-Saharan Africa, including Nigeria—The summit aimed to collectively explore, address, and improve digital well-being on and beyond the platform.
As part of announcements made at the summit, and building on a successful pilot in Europe, TikTok is expanding its in-app helpline resources to Nigeria in partnership with Cece Yara, a child-centered non-profit organization focused on youth safety and support. In the coming weeks, young Nigerian users will have access to local in-app helplines providing expert support for reporting content related to suicide, self-harm, hate, and harassment.
Collaborating with experts, TikTok also announced Dr. Olawale Ogunlana (Doctor Wales) as a TikTok Digital Well-being ambassador for Nigeria. Dr. Ogunlana is part of a diverse group of verified healthcare professionals from the WHO Fides Network.
Alongside these safety efforts, TikTok encourages community participation through user reporting and education. The ongoing #SaferTogether campaign advocates for a more collaborative approach to creating a respectful online environment.
The Q1 2025 report underscores TikTok’s deepened efforts to safeguard its Nigerian user base, strengthen enforcement systems, and maintain transparency regarding its measures to uphold platform integrity.