Chinese app shares results of 'Community Guidelines Enforcement' report
The social media application TikTok says that Pakistan ranked second in the world in terms of volume of videos removed due to violation of community guidelines in the second quarter of this year and removed 9,851,404 videos from here. Gone.
In a statement, the Chinese app shared the results of the "Community Guidelines Enforcement" report, which includes details of the volume and nature of content removed from the platform in the second quarter of 2021.
The report details the content removed in violation of strict community guidelines, and to strengthen public accountability of the platform for community, policy makers and NGOs, the statement said.
From April to June, more than 81.518 million videos were removed globally, less than one percent of all uploaded content, the TikTok administration said.
93% of these videos were taken action within 24 hours of being posted, while 94.1% were taken action before being reported by the user.
The company said 87.5 percent of the removed content was not viewed by any user.
The statement said 73.3% of the videos removed were for promoting content such as harassment and intimidation, while 72.9% were for hate speech that was removed before being reported, up from 66.2% in the first quarter of this year. And 67 percent.
Tuck Tuck said the improvement came from a combination of technology and content moderation, overseen by a specific investigative team that identifies videos that violate policies, in order to better enforce those policies. Moderators also receive regular training to identify content that violates community guidelines.
It should be noted that the video sharing platform has been banned several times in Pakistan and it is still blocked by the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA).
The app was first banned in Pakistan in October 2020 and the PTA said the decision was taken following complaints of obscene and immoral content on the app.
The TikTok administration later claimed to have removed millions of videos based on inappropriate content, after which the PTA restored the TikTok service.
In March this year, the Peshawar High Court also ordered the closure of TikTok due to the presence of immoral material.
The service was later restored in April following claims and assurances from the Tuck Talk administration that the pornographic videos had been removed.
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Earlier in June, the Sindh High Court had banned TikTok at the request of a citizen against whom the PTA had filed a miscellaneous petition.
The High Court later ordered the PTA to expedite the disposal of tick-tack applications and withdrew the ban on tick-tack.
In July, the PTA once again blocked access to TikTok for failing to remove "inappropriate content".