TikTok Removed Over 3.7 Crore Videos from India in First Half of 2020 for Violating Guidelines, in Latest Transparency Report

TikTok eliminated over 3.7 crore movies from India for violating its tips in the primary half of 2020, the corporate owned by China’s ByteDance claimed in its transparency report printed on Tuesday. The report additionally underlined TikTok’s initiatives to flag and eradicate misinformation on the platform. In late June the federal government banned TikTok in India together with 58 different apps that had a linkage with China. Apple App Store and Google Play each eliminated the app in the nation and telcos disconnected person entry to the platform shortly after the nationwide ban got here into impact.

In the transparency report, TikTok mentioned that it had eliminated a complete of 3,76,82,924 movies from India in the primary half of 2020. Those movies have been an element of the 10,45,43,719 movies eliminated from the platform globally for violating its group tips and phrases of service.

“Of those videos, we found and removed 96.46 percent of videos before they were reported to us, and 90.32 percent were removed before they received any views,” the corporate mentioned in the report.

In addition to the removing of movies, TikTok mentioned that the amount of authorized requests additionally elevated on the platform with the expansion of person base and content material over the primary half of the yr.

“We received 1,768 requests for user information from 42 countries/ markets. We received 121 requests from government agencies to restrict or remove content from 15 countries/ markets,” the corporate famous with out offering any regional-specific particulars.

TikTok additionally evaluated 10,625 copyrighted content material take-down notices globally, the report talked about.

Apart from offering knowledge to focus on its tips enforcement, TikTok mentioned that it had launched its fact-checking programmes in India and a number of other different markets, together with Australia, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Spain, the UK, and the US. The platform launched a misinformation report performance with a COVID-19 sub-category in India to permit customers to flag deceptive content material. It additionally added public service bulletins (PSAs) by means of totally different hashtags.

TikTok additionally partnered with UNICEF India, UNESCO, UN Women, UNDP India, Central Square Foundation, and Indian Psychiatric Society in the nation, the report mentioned.

The launch of the transparency report comes at a time when TikTok is not obtainable for entry in the Indian market and can be going through a tough time in the US. Last week, US President Donald Trump even blocked downloads of TikTok and WeChat apps in the nation attributable to knowledge privateness points.

Should the federal government clarify why Chinese apps have been banned? We mentioned this on Orbital, our weekly expertise podcast, which you’ll subscribe to by way of Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or RSS, obtain the episode, or simply hit the play button under.