TikTok

Report March 2026

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TikTok’s mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. With more than 200 million people across Europe coming to TikTok every month, including 178 million in the EU, it’s natural for people to hold different opinions. That’s why we focus on a shared set of facts when it comes to issues that affect people’s safety. A safe, authentic, and trustworthy experience is essential to achieving our goals. Transparency plays a key role in building that trust, allowing online communities and society to assess how TikTok meets its regulatory obligations. As a signatory to the Code of Conduct on Disinformation (the Code), TikTok is committed to sharing clear insights into the actions we take.

TikTok takes disinformation extremely seriously. We are committed to preventing its spread, promoting authoritative information, and supporting media literacy initiatives that strengthen community resilience.

We prioritise proactive content moderation, with the vast majority of violative content removed before it is reported. In H2 2025, more than 98% of videos violating our Integrity and Authenticity policies were removed proactively worldwide.

We continue to address emerging behaviours and risks through our Digital Services Act (DSA) compliance programme, which the Code has operated under since July 2025.

Our actions under the Code demonstrate TikTok’s strong commitment to combating disinformation while ensuring transparency and accountability to our community and regulators.

Please see the sections below for information about our work under specific commitments, or download the report as a PDF.

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Commitment 21
Relevant Signatories commit to strengthen their efforts to better equip users to identify Disinformation. In particular, in order to enable users to navigate services in an informed way, Relevant Signatories commit to facilitate, across all Member States languages in which their services are provided, user access to tools for assessing the factual accuracy of sources through fact-checks from fact-checking organisations that have flagged potential Disinformation, as well as warning labels from other authoritative sources.
We signed up to the following measures of this commitment
Measure 21.1 Measure 21.2 Measure 21.3
In line with this commitment, did you deploy new implementation measures (e.g. changes to your terms of service, new tools, new policies, etc)?
Yes
If yes, list these implementation measures here
  • We ran 8 temporary media literacy election integrity campaigns in advance of regional elections, most in collaboration with our fact-checking and media literacy partners:
    • 7 in the EU
      • Czechia (parliamentary election) with Demagog.cz
      • Portugal (local election) with Polígrafo
      • Estonia (local election) with Lead Stories
      • Ireland (presidential election) with The Journal
      • Netherlands (parliamentary election) N/A
      • Denmark (local and municipal election) with Sikker Digital
      • Portugal (presidential election) with Polígrafo
    • 1 in Norway (parliamentary election) N/A
  • Following wildfires in Portugal and Spain, we launched an in-app guide to provide users with guidance on interacting with sensitive content during natural disasters. The guide links to TikTok's tragic event support guide and authoritative third party resources (PT)(ES) of information about aid and relief support. The intervention is available in all in-app languages.
  • Continued our in-app interventions, including video tags, search interventions and in-app information centres, available in 23 official EU languages and Norwegian and Icelandic for EEA users, around the elections, the Israel-Hamas Conflict, Holocaust Education, and the War in Ukraine.
  • We partner with fact checkers to assess the accuracy of content. Sometimes, our fact-checking partners determine that content cannot be confirmed or checks are inconclusive (especially during unfolding events). Where our fact-checking partners provide us with a rating that demonstrates the claim cannot yet be verified, we may use our unverified content label to inform viewers via a banner that a video contains unverified content, in an effort to raise user awareness about content credibility.
  • We launched a $2 Million AI Literacy fund in partnership with more than 20 civil society organisations across 12 markets worldwide. The ad credit fund is designed to support the creation of educational content that will appear in For You feeds. This initiative launched alongside several new company updates to spot, shape and understand AI-generated content.
Do you plan to put further implementation measures in place in the next 6 months to substantially improve the maturity of the implementation of this commitment?
N/A
If yes, which further implementation measures do you plan to put in place in the next 6 months?
N/A
Measure 21.1
Relevant Signatories will further develop and apply policies, features, or programs across Member States and EU languages to help users benefit from the context and insights provided by independent fact-checkers or authoritative sources, for instance by means of labels, such as labels indicating fact-checker ratings, notices to users who try to share or previously shared the rated content, information panels, or by acting upon content notified by fact-checkers that violate their policies.
QRE 21.1.1
Relevant Signatories will report on the policies, features, or programs they deploy to meet this Measure and on their availability across Member States.
We currently have 12 IFCN accredited fact-checking partners across the EU, EEA, and wider Europe: 

  1. Agence France-Presse (AFP)
  2. dpa Deutsche Presse-Agentur
  3. Demagog
  4. Facta
  5. Fact Check Georgia
  6. Faktograf
  7. Internews Kosova
  8. Lead Stories
  9. Newtral
  10. Poligrafo
  11. Reuters
  12. Teyit

These partners provide fact-checking coverage in 23 official EEA languages, including at least one official language of each EU Member States, plus Georgian, Russian, Turkish, and Ukrainian.

We ensure that our users benefit from the context and insights provided by the fact checking organisations we partner with in the following ways: 

  • Enforcement of misinformation policies. Our fact-checking partners play a critical role in helping us enforce our misinformation policies, which aim to promote a trustworthy and authentic experience for our users. We consider context and fact-checking to be key to consistently and accurately enforcing these policies, so, while we use machine learning models to help detect potential misinformation, we have our misinformation moderators assess, confirm, and take action on harmful misinformation. As part of this process, our moderators can access a repository of previously fact-checked claims and they are able to provide content to our expert fact checking partners for further evaluation. Where fact-checking partners advise that content is false, our moderators take measures to assess and remove it from our platform. Our response to QRE 31.1.1 provides further insight into the way in which fact-checking partners  are involved in this process.
  • Unverified content labelling. As mentioned above, we partner with fact checkers to assess the accuracy of content. Sometimes, our fact-checking partners  determine that content cannot be confirmed or checks are inconclusive (especially during unfolding events). Where our fact-checking partners provide us with a rating that demonstrates the claim cannot yet be verified, we may use our unverified content label to inform viewers via a banner that a video contains unverified content, in an effort to raise user awareness about content credibility. In these circumstances, the content creator is also notified that their video was flagged as unsubstantiated content and the video will become ineligible for recommendation in the For You feed.

  • In-app tools related to specific topics:
    • Election integrity. We have launched campaigns in advance of several major elections aimed at educating the public about the voting process which encourage users to fact-check information with our fact-checking partners. For example, the election integrity campaign we rolled out in advance of France legislative elections in June 2024 included a search intervention and in-app Election Centre. The centre contained a section about spotting misinformation, which included videos created in partnership with fact-checking organisation Agence France-Presse (AFP). In total, during the reporting period, we ran 14 temporary media literacy election integrity campaigns in advance of regional elections. 
    • Climate Change. We launched a search intervention which redirects users seeking out climate change-related content to authoritative information. We worked with the UN to provide the authoritative information. 
    • Natural disasters: Launched a new temporary in-app natural disaster media literacy search guide for the Reunion Cyclone Garance between 4 March and 4 April 2025 and continued our temporary search guide for the Mayotte Cyclone until 14 Feb 2025. These search guides link to TikTok's Safety Center tragic events support guide and authoritative third party information about aid and relief support. 
  • User awareness of our fact-checking partnerships and labels. We have created pages on our Safety Center & Transparency Center to raise users’ awareness about our fact-checking program and labels and to support the work of our fact-checking partners. 
SLI 21.1.1
Relevant Signatories will report through meaningful metrics on actions taken under Measure 21.1, at the Member State level. At the minimum, the metrics will include: total impressions of fact-checks; ratio of impressions of fact-checks to original impressions of the fact-checked content–or if these are not pertinent to the implementation of fact-checking on their services, other equally pertinent metrics and an explanation of why those are more adequate.
Methodology
The share of removals under our harmful misinformation policy, share of proactive removals, share of removals before any views and share of the removals within 24h are relative to the total removals of each policy. 

The share cancel rate (%) following the unverified content label share warning pop-up indicates the percentage of users who do not share a video after seeing the label pop up. This metric is based on the approximate location of the users that engaged with these tools.

Share cancel rate (%) following the unverified content label share warning pop-up (users who do not share the video after seeing the pop up) Share of removals under misinformation policy Share of proactive removals under misinformation policy Share of video removals before any views under misinformation policy Share of video removals within 24h by misinformation policy Share of video removals under Civic and Election Integrity policy Share of proactive video removals under Civic and Election Integrity policy Share of video removals before any views under Civic and Election Integrity policy Share of video removals within 24h under Civic and Election Integrity policy % video removals under Edited Media and AI-Generated Content (AIGC) policy % proactive video removals under Edited Media and AI-Generated Content (AIGC) policy % video removals before any views under Edited Media and AI-Generated Content (AIGC) policy % video removals within 24h under Edited Media and AI-Generated Content (AIGC) policy
Austria 30.37% 28.57% 98.77% 85.60% 91.54% 5.59% 99.02% 94.91% 97.06% 17.10% 97.51% 88.55% 86.96%
Belgium 29.07% 32.26% 98.29% 86.10% 90.80% 6.72% 99.65% 95.72% 70.14% 22.54% 98.03% 84.24% 82.03%
Bulgaria 35.32% 52.31% 99.52% 78.27% 92.65% 4.36% 99.00% 95.52% 91.04% 23.63% 99.08% 87.35% 88.77%
Croatia 25.89% 21.13% 97.81% 82.13% 92.16% 2.09% 100.00% 98.41% 100.00% 39.42% 98.40% 95.55% 96.05%
Cyprus 33.62% 25.18% 98.00% 85.02% 92.58% 3.05% 100.00% 96.47% 96.47% 43.61% 97.94% 92.50% 92.50%
Czech Republic 31.01% 41.67% 99.37% 80.18% 94.92% 4.93% 98.52% 92.60% 95.56% 22.64% 99.03% 92.07% 93.55%
Denmark 31.82% 18.65% 98.79% 84.02% 90.10% 3.84% 98.63% 89.06% 96.68% 14.42% 98.65% 93.59% 93.70%
Estonia 30.88% 7.88% 99.24% 85.01% 93.93% 0.67% 97.78% 82.22% 91.11% 23.48% 98.79% 97.90% 97.90%
Finland 29.58% 31.31% 97.20% 82.76% 91.75% 6.18% 97.39% 90.67% 92.91% 21.25% 97.39% 91.10% 93.05%
France 30.16% 31.65% 97.72% 80.63% 88.60% 3.08% 98.82% 94.33% 97.86% 24.13% 96.36% 91.40% 91.17%
Germany 29.86% 29.76% 96.93% 83.42% 90.34% 3.69% 98.85% 95.80% 98.20% 35.15% 97.74% 92.71% 92.71%
Greece 30.64% 35.82% 99.17% 81.49% 95.59% 7.47% 99.90% 95.52% 99.38% 17.78% 98.77% 84.15% 86.73%
Hungary 28.14% 15.44% 98.79% 92.35% 96.31% 9.07% 99.66% 95.55% 99.09% 10.26% 96.97% 92.12% 91.92%
Ireland 33.69% 28.97% 98.97% 89.48% 93.19% 4.58% 98.06% 94.67% 97.34% 19.09% 97.97% 91.29% 90.24%
Italy 32.14% 36.23% 92.03% 84.00% 91.51% 5.29% 76.27% 91.53% 96.92% 29.96% 82.05% 89.87% 89.16%
Latvia 36.08% 19.79% 99.29% 86.10% 95.32% 8.45% 100.00% 28.57% 16.61% 42.64% 98.88% 97.63% 97.43%
Lithuania 31.90% 25.86% 98.99% 59.21% 66.67% 1.45% 96.72% 98.36% 96.72% 41.12% 98.61% 96.41% 96.41%
Luxembourg 32.63% 2.81% 98.85% 86.82% 90.54% 0.39% 100.00% 95.83% 100.00% 13.06% 99.57% 98.46% 98.64%
Malta 28.83% 13.64% 95.60% 89.31% 91.19% 2.23% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 32.76% 97.91% 96.34% 95.81%
Netherlands 29.12% 42.73% 98.74% 81.47% 82.21% 2.70% 96.47% 82.25% 84.12% 23.77% 97.35% 88.90% 88.15%
Poland 30.73% 37.40% 98.31% 76.58% 91.66% 2.63% 99.33% 89.31% 94.03% 18.30% 97.45% 93.23% 94.52%
Portugal 29.97% 41.29% 99.49% 87.33% 92.26% 3.55% 99.63% 94.81% 97.41% 21.81% 98.61% 84.33% 85.11%
Romania 28.50% 52.46% 98.90% 78.00% 91.12% 8.44% 98.55% 79.64% 93.70% 19.09% 98.16% 89.30% 84.11%
Slovakia 28.39% 27.99% 98.93% 76.83% 94.74% 1.60% 100.00% 93.75% 96.88% 39.64% 99.50% 97.17% 97.99%
Slovenia 30.61% 7.33% 99.73% 88.92% 96.22% 0.67% 100.00% 94.12% 100.00% 16.71% 98.70% 96.21% 95.73%
Spain 36.23% 35.84% 99.07% 88.68% 92.00% 2.46% 99.39% 88.60% 93.73% 26.77% 99.32% 92.43% 91.18%
Sweden 29.51% 25.98% 98.92% 88.05% 94.45% 4.75% 99.61% 98.29% 99.21% 32.28% 99.28% 93.73% 93.77%
Iceland 33.50% 25.52% 98.37% 86.18% 86.99% 3.94% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 36.31% 100.00% 94.29% 93.71%
Liechtenstein 31.25% 4.15% 98.60% 93.71% 95.80% 0.12% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 14.06% 99.38% 100.00% 99.79%
Norway 29.55% 27.09% 98.26% 85.98% 92.66% 4.73% 100.00% 97.59% 100.00% 20.89% 98.21% 89.63% 90.41%
Total EU 31.26% 33.30% 97.70% 82.24% 90.35% 4.06% 96.56% 90.25% 94.34% 26.06% 96.42% 91.67% 91.18%
Total EEA 31.23% 33.09% 97.70% 82.28% 90.37% 4.05% 96.60% 90.33% 94.40% 25.95% 96.44% 91.68% 91.21%
SLI 21.1.2
When cooperating with independent fact-checkers to label content on their services, Relevant Signatories will report on actions taken at the Member State level and their impact, via metrics, of: number of articles published by independent fact-checkers; number of labels applied to content, such as on the basis of such articles; meaningful metrics on the impact of actions taken under Measure 21.1.1 such as the impact of said measures on user interactions with, or user re-shares of, content fact-checked as false or misleading.
Methodology:
The number of videos tagged with the unverified content label is based on the country in which the video was posted.

The share cancel rate (%) following the unverified content label share warning pop-up indicates the percentage of users who do not share a video after seeing the label pop-up. This metric is based on the approximate location of the users that engaged with these tools.

Number of videos tagged with the unverified content label Share cancel rate (%) following the unverified content label share warning pop-up (users who do not share the video after seeing the pop up)
Austria 77 30.37%
Belgium 178 29.07%
Bulgaria 198 35.32%
Croatia 5 25.89%
Cyprus 17 33.62%
Czech Republic 314 31.01%
Denmark 298 31.82%
Estonia 34 30.88%
Finland 57 29.58%
France 2,397 30.16%
Germany 1,945 29.86%
Greece 264 30.64%
Hungary 33 28.14%
Ireland 39 33.69%
Italy 943 32.14%
Latvia 2 36.08%
Lithuania 12 31.90%
Luxembourg 6 32.63%
Malta 0 28.83%
Netherlands 325 29.12%
Poland 425 30.73%
Portugal 138 29.97%
Romania 597 28.50%
Slovakia 133 28.39%
Slovenia 6 30.61%
Spain 549 36.23%
Sweden 123 29.51%
Iceland 0 33.50%
Liechtenstein 0 31.25%
Norway 79 29.55%
Total EU 9,115 31.26%
Total EEA 9,194 31.23%