TikTok removed more than four million videos and disrupted over 86,000 LIVE sessions in Nigeria in the last quarter, underscoring the scale of its ongoing crackdown on harmful and non-compliant content in one of Africa’s fastest-growing digital markets.

The figures, contained in the company’s latest Community Guidelines Enforcement Report, highlight how aggressively the platform is leaning on automation and rapid-response systems to police its Nigerian user base.

According to the report, TikTok took down 4.02 million videos in Nigeria for violating its Community Guidelines. The company said 99.9 per cent of those clips were detected and removed proactively before users could report them, while 98.4 per cent were taken down within 24 hours of being posted.

TikTok said the numbers reflect increased investment in artificial intelligence tools and human review teams tasked with identifying hate speech, harassment, misinformation, dangerous acts, and other forms of prohibited content.

Globally, the platform removed more than 175.3 million videos in the same period, representing about 0.5 per cent of all content uploaded. Of these, over 152.5 million were removed through automated detection systems. Following appeals and secondary reviews, about 8.4 million videos were later reinstated, suggesting that the company is still calibrating the balance between speed and accuracy in enforcement.

The report also sheds light on TikTok’s actions against problematic livestreams. In Nigeria alone, more than 86,000 LIVE sessions were interrupted for breaching community rules. Worldwide, the company issued warnings, removed monetisation, or took other actions against more than 17.7 million LIVE sessions and 9.2 million creators who violated LIVE monetisation policies.

TikTok said warnings are intended to educate creators and give them a chance to correct behaviour before facing harsher penalties such as suspensions or permanent bans.

The company reported stepped-up efforts to address risks linked to artificial intelligence-generated content. Creators are required to label realistic AI-generated images, audio, and video, while TikTok deploys automated detection tools and Content Credentials technology to identify and tag such material. These measures, the report noted, have contributed to the labelling of more than 1.3 billion AI-generated videos globally.

TikTok reiterated that it is combining advanced moderation technologies with thousands of trust and safety professionals worldwide and said it will continue working with Nigerian authorities, including the Office of the National Security Adviser, as well as civil society groups, to promote safer online spaces and curb harmful content.