TikTok’s latest Community Guidelines Enforcement Report for Q2 2025 outlines the scale of its moderation activity across the MENA region, offering a clearer view of how the platform is attempting to manage safety concerns as usage continues to grow. Between April and June 2025, the company removed 18,998,721 videos across Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Morocco for guideline violations. While the numbers are substantial, they largely reflect the volume of content circulating on the platform and the ongoing pressure on social networks to demonstrate visible enforcement efforts in a region with diverse regulatory expectations.
A notable area of escalation was LIVE content enforcement. TikTok halted more than 36.7 million violative livestreams worldwide in Q2 2025, nearly doubling the figure from the previous quarter. The company attributes this shift to expanded moderation tools aimed at detecting problematic behavior earlier in the broadcast process. In the MENA region alone, TikTok banned 1,331,424 LIVE hosts and disrupted nearly 3 million livestreams, underscoring the increasing scrutiny of real-time content, which is typically more difficult to moderate due to speed and context demands.
Country-level data shows a similar pattern of high removal and proactive detection rates. Egypt reported 2,930,606 removed videos with a 99.6 percent proactive rate, alongside more than 1.18 million disrupted livestreams. Saudi Arabia saw the removal of 4,911,695 videos and maintained a comparable proactive rate. The UAE logged just over 1 million removed videos, paired with close to 200,000 interrupted livestreams. Morocco reported more than 721,000 removals, Iraq exceeded 8.3 million, and Lebanon crossed 1 million—each with proactive detection percentages above 98 percent. These figures illustrate the platform’s broad reliance on automated systems designed to identify guideline violations at scale, though they also highlight the sheer volume of content requiring oversight.
Beyond removals, TikTok expanded reporting on LIVE monetization enforcement. In Q2 2025, the platform issued warnings or demonetized 2,321,813 LIVE sessions and more than 1 million creators globally for breaching monetization rules. The company positions these actions as measures to ensure that revenue-earning features are used in line with its standards, but the data also underscores how monetization frameworks introduce new layers of compliance challenges for both creators and moderators.
Appeal and restoration data provides additional insight into moderation accuracy. Iraq recorded the highest number of reinstated videos at 189,037, followed by Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco, the UAE, and Lebanon. While restoration figures represent a small fraction of total removals, they signal ongoing tension between automated enforcement and the need for human review, an issue common across large-scale platforms striving for balance between speed and precision.
TikTok frames these measures as part of a broader transparency effort supported by a mix of human reviewers and technological tools. The company continues to promote digital literacy programs and partnerships aimed at helping users navigate the platform more safely, though the long-term effectiveness of these initiatives—like those of most major social networks—will depend on how well they adapt to evolving online behavior.
