In this file photo taken on August 11, 2020 the logo of Chinese video app TikTok is seen on the side of the company’s office space at the C3 campus in Culver City, in the westside of Los Angeles. AFP
KARACHI — More than six million videos were removed from TikTok in Pakistan in three months, the app said on Wednesday, as it battles an on-off ban in the deeply conservative country.
Wildly popular among Pakistani youth, the Chinese-owned app has been shut down by authorities twice over “indecent” content, most recently in March after which the company pledged to moderate uploads.
“In the Pakistani market, TikTok removed 6,495,992 videos making it the second market to get the most videos removed after the USA, where 8,540,088 videos were removed,” TikTok Pakistan’s latest transparency report said on Wednesday, covering January to March.
Around 15 per cent of the removed videos were “adult nudity and sexual activities”.
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A spokesman said the Pakistan-made videos were banned as a result of both user and government requests.
In the Muslim nation, posting videos in Western clothes that reveal too much skin is taboo, and is often met with abuse.
