TikTok removed more than 11.7 million videos across five Middle Eastern and North African markets in the final three months of 2025, according to the platform’s latest Community Guidelines Enforcement Report, as the company detailed the scale of its content moderation across the region.
The report, covering October to December 2025, logged 11,772,196 video removals spanning Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Iraq and Lebanon. TikTok said the vast majority of that content was caught before users reported it, citing a proactive removal rate of 99.9% in each of the five markets and a takedown-within-24-hours rate of 98.4%.
Iraq accounted for the largest share, with 4,691,021 videos removed, followed by Saudi Arabia at 2,903,914 and Egypt at 2,380,226. In the UAE, TikTok removed 787,133 videos, while Lebanon saw 1,009,902 taken down. The company said it restored videos across the region following successful appeals — including 148,663 in Iraq, 146,314 in Saudi Arabia and 109,881 in Egypt — which it framed as evidence of a moderation process that gives users recourse.
Much of the report focuses on live streaming, an area where TikTok has steadily expanded enforcement. Globally, the company suspended 42,822,827 LIVE sessions in the quarter, up roughly 32.9% from 32,242,750 in the third quarter. Across Egypt, the UAE, Iraq and Lebanon, TikTok said it banned 358,160 LIVE hosts and interrupted 974,661 livestreams, with Egypt and Iraq driving most of that activity.
TikTok also pointed to efforts to keep younger users off the platform, saying it removed 23,875,879 suspected under-13 accounts and 147,716,518 fake accounts worldwide during the quarter. The company described its approach as a hybrid model that pairs automated detection with human reviewers, a combination it credits for the high proactive-removal rates.
The platform additionally reported action against accounts that break its rules for monetized live content. It said warnings or demonetization were applied to 17,714,756 LIVE sessions and 9,277,720 LIVE creators globally, while 3,753,339 LIVE sessions were reinstated over the same period.
The quarterly disclosures are part of the transparency reporting that major social platforms now publish regularly, partly in response to regulatory pressure in markets such as the European Union and growing scrutiny over how user-generated content is policed. For TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance and among the most heavily scrutinized apps in the world, the regional breakdown is also a way to demonstrate compliance to governments across the Gulf and the wider MENA region, where authorities have taken an increasingly active interest in online content.
TikTok said the full Q4 2025 enforcement data is available through its online transparency center.
