TikTok deletes over 15 mn videos from Pakistan for violating guidelines

Chinese video-sharing app TikTok has removed over 15 million videos from Pakistan for violating community guidelines.

More than 15 million videos from Pakistan were deleted by TikTok for violating community guidelines. (REUTERS)

Chinese video-sharing app TikTok has deleted over 15 million videos from Pakistan for violating community guidelines, the second largest volume of videos taken down in the second Quarter of 2022, media reports said.

15,351,388 videos were removed and nearly 97 per cent of these were removed only within 24 hours of being published, reported Dawn.

98 per cent were removed before a user reported them, and 97 per cent were removed before having any views. The platform also removed accounts determined to be spam, along with spam videos posted by those accounts.

TikTok released its latest Community Guidelines Enforcement Report for the April-June quarter, "building on its commitment to a multi-pronged approach to stop misinformation on the platform".

In the second quarter of 2022, 113,809,300 videos were removed globally, which represents about 1 per cent of all videos uploaded to TikTok, reported Dawn.

A Moscow court has slapped the Chinese video sharing app TikTok with a fine of USD 50,943 for refusing to remove LGBT propaganda.

Moscow court's fine on the Chinese app TikTok was followed by a statement by the Federal Youth Agency and the Russian media watchdog. Russian media watchdog reported that TikTok is promoting the "LGBT movement, radical feminism and a distorted view of traditional sexual relations," reported Russian news agency TASS.

Later, the two agencies made their statement citing a February 10 video posted on TikTok. According to them, in the video an author was talking about teaching English through gender, and also forms a distorted view of non-traditional sexual relations.

"The court found TikTok guilty under Part 2 of Art. 13.41 of the Administrative Offenses Code of the Russian Federation (failure of the owner of a website to delete information if the obligation to delete such information is included in the legislation of the Russian Federation) and imposed a fine of 3 million rubles," judge Timur Vakhrameev announced.

Since 2021, TikTok has been fined a total amount of more than USD 186,494 for refusing to remove prohibited information, the agency said adding that since February, the Russian media watchdog has been compiling administrative reports in relation to social networks and instant messengers that have not removed calls to participate in unauthorized actions.

Since the start of 2022, numerous websites have been repeatedly taken to court for violating Russian law after refusing to remove prohibited content. For Instance, Telegram was fined USD 186,494 for refusing to remove prohibited information, including instructions for committing sabotage, as per the media agency.

Earlier US lawmakers introduced a bill to prohibit the Chinese video sharing app TikTok from accessing their citizens' user data from within China and block the installation of the application on government devices.