Between January and the end of June, 2023, Russian government bodies submitted 2,296 content removal requests to TikTok, while authorities in Bangladesh submitted almost 1,046 removal requests. In total, courts submitted 8,326 removal requests to the video-sharing platform. During the measured period, 77 countries submitted content and account removal requests to TikTok.
Number of content removal requests issued to TikTok by government bodies in 1st half of 2023, by country
Characteristic
Government requests
Total accounts received
Russia
2,296
253
Bangladesh
1,046
174
Australia
1,023
1,532
New Zealand
530
637
Israel
438
627
Pakistan
426
337
Malaysia
415
67
Germany
399
462
Indonesia
333
286
Turkey
263
272
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