india halts downloads of tiktok video app

Indian mobile users browses through the Chinese owned video-sharing 'Tik Tok' app on a smartphones in Amritsar on June 30, 2020. In its transparency report, TikTok said that of the roughly 105 million videos it removed worldwide in the first half of this year, 31% were taken down for containing “adult nudity and sexual activities” and 22% were removed for “minor safety,” according to the report. ByteDance had forecast over $1 billion in advertising revenue from India this year, most of it generated by TikTok, according to estimates from consulting firm R3. India had been the biggest driver of new TikTok downloads, generating close to 660 million installs since its launch in 2017, according to analytics firm Sensor Tower. (ORCL), Walmart and others are now trying to hammer out a deal that can save TikTok’s US operations. The India ban was a big blow to TikTok, whose global ambitions have also been hobbled by President Donald Trump’s threat to ban the app unless ByteDance sells it. India was a huge market for TikTok before the government banned it and several other well-known Chinese apps in late June, citing a “threat to sovereignty and integrity.” The move followed a border clash between the two countries earlier in the month that left at least 20 Indian soldiers dead. TikTok ban undercuts ByteDance in one of the world's biggest digital markets Ī woman holds a phone with the Tiki's Tok application on the screen in New Delhi, India. India also topped the list in the second half of 2019, the first time TikTok reported details on video removals. Videos removed globally accounted for less than 1% of the total uploaded to the platform, TikTok said.īecause of the coronavirus pandemic, TikTok said it “relied more heavily on technology to detect and automatically remove violating content” in India and other countries.

The United States was second, with nearly 10 million videos removed.

More TikTok videos were removed in India than any other market. TikTok is owned by ByteDance, a Chinese company. The report covers the first six months of the year, just before TikTok was banned in India as tensions rose between New Delhi and Beijing. The company took down nearly 37.7 million videos in the country, TikTok said in a transparency report released on Tuesday. More than a third of them were in India alone. TikTok removed roughly 100 million videos from its platform through the first half of 2020 for breaking its rules.

India halts downloads of tiktok video app