By contrast, YouTube removed around 14.7 million videos during the same period. By contrast, YouTube removed around 14.7 million videos during the same period.
Key insight:Interestingly, TikTok’s report does not mention Hong Kong or China, where its parent company ByteDance is headquartered.
TikTok removed more than 49 million videos for violating its content policies in the second half of 2019, according to the company’s latest transparency report released this morning.
The short-form video site “proactively caught and removed” 98.2% of those videos before a user reported them, with 89.4% removed before they were seen by any users, the report said. Those 49 million removed videos represent “less than 1% of all the videos our users created.”
The report comes as the app, which is owned by China-based company ByteDance, faces intense scrutiny from governments around the world—including the United States—over national security concerns. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and President Donald Trump each said that the administration is looking into banning TikTok, though they did not specify how exactly that would be done.
TikTok removed about 16.5 million videos in India, which was the social video app’s largest market before India’s government banned it in late June. TikTok removed about 4.5 million in the United States,3.7 million in Pakistan, 2 million in the United Kingdom and 1.2 million in Russia.
