Tiktok reveals it took down over 100m clips in the first half of the year in transparency report
Short video platform Tiktok has revealed it removed over 104m videos in the first half of 2020, and received nearly 1800 legal requests and 10,600 copyright takedown notices.
The figures come from the Byte Dance-owned platform’s first transparency report of 2020, which showed an incredible jump from its first transparent report, which covered the last six months of 2019. Just 49m videos were deleted in those six months, reflecting the growing size of the platform’s user base.
A post written by Brent Thomas, director of public policy, Australia and New Zealand, and Arjun Narayan Bettadapur Manjunath, head of trust and safety for APAC, said the report showed how important safety was to the business, which is currently in the process of being sold in the US.
