TikTok removed 4.69 million videos in Iraq in Q4 2025, company says

LONDON — TikTok removed more than 4.5 million videos in the fourth quarter of 2025 as part of its latest community guidelines enforcement report. The company said the removals targeted content that violated its usage policies in the Middle East and North Africa region. Across the region, TikTok said it took down more than 11.7 million videos during the quarter, with country-level figures reaching 2.38 million in Egypt, 2.9 million in Saudi Arabia, 787,000 in the United Arab Emirates and more than one million in Lebanon. Iraq accounted for 4.69 million removals. The company reported a proactive removal rate of 99.9% across all countries covered in the report. Globally, TikTok said it removed approximately 23.8 million accounts suspected of belonging to users under 13 and 147.7 million fake accounts during the same period. In the live-streaming segment, the platform suspended more than 42.8 million broadcasts and banned hundreds of thousands of creators found to have violated its rules. The company described the measures as part of a strategy to protect minors, make digital experiences safer and strengthen transparency by combining advanced technology with human review. No further operational details were immediately available.