• TikTok removed 820,552 videos in Kenya between October and December 2025 for violating community guidelines.
• The platform said artificial intelligence systems detected 99.9% of removed Kenyan videos before users reported them.
• TikTok suspended 108,752 Kenyan accounts during the quarter, including 93,704 accounts linked to suspected users under 13 years old.

Chinese social media platform TikTok removed 820,552 videos in Kenya between October and December 2025 for violating community guidelines, according to the company’s latest quarterly transparency report published on Tuesday, May 19.

The report detailed the platform’s global content moderation operations as digital platforms face growing criticism over harmful content management and the protection of underage users.

TikTok said artificial intelligence and machine-learning systems automatically detected 99.9% of the removed videos in Kenya before users reported them.

The company also said moderators removed 98.4% of content classified as violating platform rules within 24 hours after publication. The removals included misinformation, hate speech, violent content and online safety violations.

In addition, TikTok said it suspended 108,752 accounts in Kenya during the same period. Among those accounts, 93,704 allegedly belonged to users younger than 13 years old, which falls below the platform’s minimum age requirement.

The company said those measures formed part of its strategy to protect minors and strengthen digital safety as several countries tighten regulations targeting social media platforms.

The increase in moderation activity comes as digital usage and social media adoption continue to expand rapidly across Africa. According to DataReportal, Kenya counted more than 18 million active social media users by the end of 2025, driven by strong growth in mobile video consumption.

TikTok ranks among the most popular applications for young Kenyan users, particularly through short-form entertainment, music and news content.

Globally, TikTok said it removed more than 175.3 million videos during the fourth quarter of 2025, representing about 0.5% of all content published on the platform during the period.

The company said artificial intelligence tools automatically detected more than 152 million of those videos. However, TikTok also restored about 8.4 million videos after human review, highlighting the limitations of automated moderation systems.

Samira Njoya