TikTok removed 49,512 live sessions in Nigeria between April and June 2025, the company revealed during the West Africa Safety Summit in Dakar, Senegal, held in partnership with AfricTivistes.
The action targeted streams that violated monetization rules, reflecting the platform’s efforts to curb harmful behavior and ensure real-time safety.
The summit brought together government officials, regulators, NGOs, media representatives, and industry leaders from across West Africa including Nigeria, Senegal, Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Chad, and Ethiopia to strengthen online safety, improve content moderation, and align regional approaches to digital security.
During the same quarter, TikTok removed 3.78 million videos in Nigeria for breaching community guidelines, with 98.7% deleted before being viewed and 91.9% removed within 24 hours, highlighting the efficiency of its moderation systems.
Globally, the platform took action on 2,321,813 live sessions and 1,040,356 live creators for violating its live-monetization rules.
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Duduzile Mkhize, TikTok’s Outreach and Partnerships Manager for Sub-Saharan Africa, stressed that while safety measures follow global standards, strategies are adapted to local contexts through close collaboration with policymakers, regulators, and civil society.
Experts lauded TikTok’s transparency, saying its enforcement metrics build trust as it tackles online harms like misinformation, radicalization, and unsafe content.
These Q2 figures underline TikTok’s commitment to user safety in Nigeria, showing that proactive moderation, regional cooperation, and strict enforcement of live rules remain central to its strategy.