TikTok removed 871,446 videos uploaded from Sri Lanka during the first six months of 2026 for violating its Community Guidelines.
The platform removed 441,089 videos in the first quarter and 430,357 in the second quarter. The second-quarter figure represented a decline of 10,732 videos, or approximately 2.4%, compared with the first quarter.
According to TikTok’s second-quarter report, sensitive or mature content accounted for the largest share of videos removed globally. The report listed the following categories:
- 19.5% – Sensitive or mature content.
- 16.1% – Content relating to mental and behavioural health.
- 13.8% – Body exposure and sexualised behaviour.
- 13.7% – Violations of safety and civility standards.
- 13.5% – Dangerous activities and challenges.
- 1.8% – Edited media and artificial intelligence (AI)-generated content that violated the platform’s rules.
However, TikTok has not disclosed a breakdown by content category for videos removed from Sri Lanka. These percentages relate to removals worldwide.
Meanwhile, TikTok reinstated 20,051 videos from Sri Lanka in the first quarter and 12,960 in the second quarter, bringing the total restored during the six-month period to 33,011.
The report stated that 99.4% of videos removed from Sri Lanka in the second quarter were identified and taken down before users reported them, compared with 99.1% in the first quarter.
However, the proportion identified before user reports and removed within 24 hours fell from 95% in the first quarter to 93.9% in the second quarter.
Removed videos accounted for 0.5% of all videos posted from Sri Lanka in each quarter, according to the report.
Globally, TikTok removed 188.3 million videos during the second quarter. The company said 97.4% of those removals were carried out using automated moderation technologies, including AI.
During the same period, the platform also removed 278.4 million comments, 146.8 million fake accounts and 26.8 million accounts suspected of belonging to children under the age of 13 worldwide.
TikTok said its automated content moderation systems were used to promptly identify and remove harmful content or material that violated its rules, while improving safety on the platform.
