Keeping the Philippine TikTok community safe

MANILA, Philippines — Millions of Filipinos come to TikTok to create, share, discover and connect. They learn foodie hacks, find DIY recipes, get inspired by beauty videos, even study topics like finance.

This is because at TikTok, everyone has a voice. Everyday people, such as pharmacists like Archie Larga, school teachers like Teacher Beia Manahan, home foodies like Kirby Quimado, gamers like Archer Perez, musicians like Mona Gonzales, and comedians like Spencer Serafica, have found their voices, built their communities, and positively impacted millions of lives.

TikTok is a global platform where we welcome and celebrate an incredible diversity of backgrounds, beliefs, interests, personalities, style and content. Thus, we allow people to have the freedom and opportunity to express themselves while balancing a safe and joyful space for positive impact.

This is why we’re committed to maintaining a safe, inclusive and authentic environment for our Filipino community and why we have robust measures to help ensure a positive platform for our users.

In fact, more than 40,000 people globally work alongside innovative technology to keep our platform safe and welcoming. And while we are a global company, we take a localized approach to regulatory compliance, collaborating with stakeholders to gain a deep understanding of local concerns and fulfil our regulatory commitments.

Our latest Transparency Report covering April to June 2023 shows the actions we have taken to keep our community safe and to uphold the integrity and authenticity of our platform in the Philippines:

We removed a total of over 4.5 million videos in the Philippines for violating our Community Guidelines. As a result of our measures, 99% of these videos were proactively removed, 92% were removed before any views, and 96% were removed within 24 hours.

Globally, we removed a total of over 106 million videos; 66.4 million of which were removed by automation while 91.6% of user reports were actioned upon in less than two hours.

Globally, we also suspended over eight million LIVE sessions, representing 1.5% of total LIVE sessions during that period.

Globally, we prevented 62.4 million fake accounts from