TikTok, the short video platform owned by Bytedance, says it deleted 1.4 million videos uploaded by Nigerian users over the company’s policy violations in the third quarter of 2023.
The company disclosed this in its recently published Community Guidelines Enforcement Report, which stated that it deleted 73.6 million accounts that were found to be fraudulent or spam during the period under review.
According to the corporation, 348.7 million likes on videos were also deleted.
It added that 7.2 billion fake follow requests and 211.3 million fake followers were deleted.
The company found that the deleted likes, followers, and follow requests were the result of “automated or inauthentic mechanisms.”
“As always, we’re looking for outside threats and taking precautions to protect the platform from fraudulent accounts and activity. There are periodic variations in the reported metrics in these regions due to these attackers’ continual probing and attacking of our systems.
“Despite this, we’re unwavering in our resolve to swiftly detect and delete any accounts, materials, or actions that aim to manipulate users’ popularity on our platform,” TikTok stated.
Folarin Kehinde is an Abuja-based journalist with over 5 years of experience in journalism. His work has earned him national and international recognition across various beats, including environment, health and politics.
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