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Kenya: TikTok Ordered to Remove Minors Sexual Contents After BBC Expose
Capital FM, 6 March 2025
The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has directed TikTok to remove all sexual content involving minors on its platform. Read more »
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Kenya: TikTok Tight-Lipped On Monetization for Kenyan Creatives
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Kenya Orders TikTok To Remove Child Sexual Abuse Content
The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has ordered social media giant TikTok to remove sexual abuse content involving minors from its platform, after a BBC investigation that exposed child exploitation through livestreams in Kenya.
CA Director General David Mugonyi has condemned the violations, saying that they contravene both Kenyan and international laws on child protection and online safety. As part of its crackdown, CA has launched a formal inquiry to assess the extent of the breaches and ensure accountability.
TikTok is the third most popular social media platform in Kenya after Facebook and WhatsApp.
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In its continued effort to reaffirm commitment to online safety, TikTok, a social media platform, removed nearly 11.9 million videos from nine African countries - Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa, Algeria, Somalia, Libya, Ethiopia, Sudan, and Morocco - for violating integrity, advertising, privacy, and security standards.
Egypt had the highest number of removals at 2.75 million, followed by
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TikTok is a micro-video sharing social media platform where users can create short, usually funny and/or informative, videos and share them on the same platform and beyond. It's very popular with young audiences - and Nigerians are no exception. TikTok is gaining dominance by the day, and is gradually diverting young Nigerians from other social media platforms, like Instagram. Of all the social media apps in existence, TikTok gained a 31,9% market share in Nigeria in 2020, writes
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