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TikTok removes 16.5 million+ videos across MENA region in H1 2025

The TikTok Community Guidelines Enforcement Report for Q1 2025 report reflects the platform's evolving approach to community protection, content moderation, and proactive user empowerment in the MENA region.

Through the first quarter of 2025, from January to March 2025, TikTok removed more than 16.5 million videos across the MENA region for violating its Community Guidelines.

The figures represent videos taken down across Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, the UAE and Morocco, offering a representative view of TikTok’s enforcement efforts across the region during this period.

In Q1 2025 alone, TikTok banned 849,976 live hosts and proactively interrupted more than 1.5 million live streams across Egypt, the UAE, Iraq, Lebanon and Morocco.

TikTok’s Community Guidelines are enforced through a hybrid model of automated systems and human moderation, in an attempt to ensure content is reviewed efficiently and fairly. Us


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the authorAnup Oommen
Anup Oommen is the Editor of Campaign Middle East at Motivate Media Group, a well-reputed moderator, and a multiple award-winning journalist with more than 15 years of experience at some of the most reputable and credible global news organisations, including Reuters, CNN, and Motivate Media Group. As the Editor of Campaign Middle East, Anup heads market-leading coverage of advertising, media, marketing, PR, events and experiential, digital, the wider creative industries, and more, through the brand’s digital, print, events, directories, podcast and video verticals. As such he’s a key stakeholder in the Campaign Global brand, the world’s leading authority for the advertising, marketing and media industries, which was first published in the UK in 1968.