TikTok removed 11,772,196 videos across Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Iraq and Lebanon between October and December 2025, according to the company’s Q4 2025 Community Guidelines Enforcement Report released this week.
Iraq recorded the highest volume of removals in the region, with 4,691,021 videos taken down during the quarter. Saudi Arabia followed with 2,903,914 removals, Egypt with 2,380,226,
Lebanon with 1,009,902, and the UAE with 787,133. Across all five markets, TikTok reported a proactive removal rate of 99.9 per cent, meaning almost all violating content was identified before users flagged it. The company said 98.4 per cent of removed videos were taken down within 24 hours.
Appeals led to a combined 470,811 video restorations across the five countries, a figure TikTok cited as evidence of a functioning recourse process.
Globally, the platform suspended 42,822,827 LIVE sessions during Q4, up roughly 32.9% from 32,242,750 in Q3 2025. TikTok banned 358,160 LIVE hosts worldwide over the period. In the UAE specifically, 38,343 LIVE hosts were banned and 100,899 livestreams were interrupted. Egypt saw 126,095 LIVE host bans and 357,652 livestream interruptions; Iraq recorded 181,918 and 472,669 respectively.
On account integrity, TikTok said it removed 23,875,879 suspected under-13 accounts and 147,716,518 fake accounts globally during the quarter.
The report also covered LIVE monetisation enforcement. TikTok said it applied warnings or demonetisation to 17,714,756 LIVE sessions and 9,277,720 creators worldwide for monetisation guideline violations, while restoring 3,753,339 LIVE sessions over the same period.
The figures come from a company-produced transparency report and have not been independently verified.
