TikTok, a short video platform has announced that it deleted 1.4 million videos uploaded by Nigerian users, 348.7 million likes on videos over the company’s policy violations in the third quarter of 2023.
This was revealed in its recently published Community Guidelines Enforcement Report, which stated that it deleted 73.6 million accounts that were found to be fraudulent or spam during the period under review.
It added that 7.2 billion fake follow requests and 211.3 million fake followers were deleted.
The company found that the deleted likes, followers, and follow requests were the result of “automated or inauthentic mechanisms.”
“As always, we’re looking for outside threats and taking precautions to protect the platform from fraudulent accounts and activity. There are periodic variations in the reported metrics in these regions due to these attackers’ continual probing and attacking of our systems.”
“Despite this, we’re unwavering in our resolve to swiftly detect and delete any accounts, materials, or actions that aim to manipulate users’ popularity on our platform”.
