TikTok removed more than 11.7 million videos that violated its Community Guidelines across five Middle Eastern countries during the fourth quarter of 2025, according to the platform’s latest Community Guidelines Enforcement Report released on Thursday.
The videos were removed from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Iraq and Lebanon between October and December 2025 as part of TikTok’s efforts to maintain a safe and authentic online environment.
The report said TikTok also stepped up measures to protect younger users globally, removing nearly 23.9 million suspected accounts belonging to children under the age of 13 and more than 147.7 million fake accounts during the quarter.
Across the MENA region, TikTok reported proactive moderation rates of 99.9 per cent in all five countries, with 98.4 per cent of violative content removed within 24 hours.
Iraq recorded the highest number of removals in the region, with 4.69 million videos taken down, followed by Saudi Arabia with 2.9 million videos and Egypt with 2.38 million. Lebanon saw 1.01 million videos removed, while the UAE recorded 787,133 removals.
TikTok said thousands of videos were later restored after successful user appeals, including 148,663 in Iraq, 146,314 in Saudi Arabia, 109,881 in Egypt, 41,506 in the UAE and 23,953 in Lebanon.
The platform also continued enforcement against violations during livestreams. Globally, TikTok suspended more than 42.8 million LIVE sessions during the quarter, an increase of about 33 per cent from the previous quarter.
In the UAE, TikTok banned 38,343 LIVE hosts and interrupted 100,899 livestreams. Egypt recorded 126,095 host bans and 357,652 interrupted livestreams, while Iraq saw 181,918 hosts banned and 472,669 livestreams interrupted. In Lebanon, 11,804 hosts were banned and 44,241 livestreams were stopped for violating platform rules.
Globally, TikTok took action against more than 17.7 million LIVE sessions and 9.3 million creators for violating monetisation guidelines. The company also restored over 3.75 million LIVE sessions during the same period.
TikTok said the report reflects its continued reliance on a combination of automated technologies and human moderators to enforce its policies, improve transparency and strengthen user safety across the platform.
