TikTok

Report September 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 189 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.

Our 2026 H1 report under the Code can be found below. 

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Commitment 24
Relevant Signatories commit to inform users whose content or accounts has been subject to enforcement actions (content/accounts labelled, demoted or otherwise enforced on) taken on the basis of violation of policies relevant to this section (as outlined in Measure 18.2), and provide them with the possibility to appeal against the enforcement action at issue and to handle complaints in a timely, diligent, transparent, and objective manner and to reverse the action without undue delay where the complaint is deemed to be founded.
We signed up to the following measures of this commitment
Measure 24.1
In line with this commitment, did you deploy new implementation measures (e.g. changes to your terms of service, new tools, new policies, etc)?
No
If yes, list these implementation measures here
N/A
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 24.1
Relevant Signatories commit to provide users with information on why particular content or accounts have been labelled, demoted, or otherwise enforced on, on the basis of violation of policies relevant to this section, as well as the basis for such enforcement action, and the possibility for them to appeal through a transparent mechanism.
QRE 24.1.1
Relevant Signatories will report on the availability of their notification and appeals systems across Member States and languages and provide details on the steps of the appeals procedure.
Users in all EU member states are notified by an in-app notification in their relevant local language where the following action is taken:
- Removal or otherwise restriction of access to their content;
- A ban of the account;
- Restriction of their access to a feature (such as LIVE or TikTok Shop); or
- Restriction of their ability to monetise.
Such notifications are provided in near real time after action has been taken (i.e. generally within several seconds or up to a few minutes).
Where we have taken any of these decisions, an in-app inbox notification sets out the violation deemed to have taken place, along with an option for users to “disagree” and submit an appeal. Users can submit appeals within 180 days of being notified of the decision they want to appeal. Further information, including about how to appeal a decision and other redress possibilities is set out here.
All such appeals raised will be queued for review by our dedicated moderation process so as to ensure that context is adequately taken into account in reaching a determination.
As mentioned above, our users have the ability to share feedback with us to the extent that they don't agree with the result of their appeal. They can do so by using the in-app function which allows them to "report a problem". We are continuously taking user feedback into consideration in order to identify areas of improvement within the appeals process.
SLI 24.1.1
Relevant Signatories provide information on the number and nature of enforcement actions for policies described in response to Measure 18.2, the numbers of such actions that were subsequently appealed, the results of these appeals, information, and to the extent possible metrics, providing insight into the duration or effectiveness of processing of appeals process, and publish this information on the Transparency Centre.
The number of appeals/overturns is based on the country in which the video being appealed/overturned was posted. These numbers are only related to our Misinformation, Civic and Election Integrity and Edited Media and AI-Generated Content (AIGC)
Number of Appeals of videos removed for violation of misinformation policy Number of overturns of appeals for violation of misinformation policy Appeal success rate of videos removed for violation of misinformation policy Number of appeals of videos removed for violation of Civic and Election Integrity policy Number of overturns of appeals for violation of Civic and Election Integrity policy Appeal success rate of videos removed for violation of Civic and Election Integrity policy Number of appeals of videos removed for violation of Edited Media and AI-Generated Content (AIGC) Number of overturns of appeals for violation of Edited Media and AI-Generated Content (AIGC) Appeal success rate of videos removed for violation of Edited Media and AI-Generated Content (AIGC) Number of appeals against actions taken on TikTok Shop for violation of Misleading Functionality and Effect policy policy Number of successful appeals against actions taken on TikTok Shop for violation of Misleading Functionality and Effect policy policy Appeal success rate following appeals against actions taken on TikTok Shop for violation of Misleading Functionality and Effect policy policy Number of appeals against actions taken on TikTok Shop for violation of Edited Media and AI-Generated Content (AIGC) policy Number of successful appeals against actions taken on TikTok Shop for violation of Edited Media and AI-Generated Content (AIGC) policy Appeal success rate following appeals against actions taken on TikTok Shop for violation of Edited Media and AI-Generated Content (AIGC) policy
Austria 1178 916 77.8% 20 17 85% 971 859 88% 0 0 N/A 0 0 N/A
Belgium 2478 2135 86.2% 59 52 88% 1411 1267 90% 1 0 0% 0 0 N/A
Bulgaria 1099 887 80.7% 18 12 67% 496 434 88%
Croatia 518 470 90.7% 7 7 100% 486 443 91%
Cyprus 287 231 80.5% 12 9 75% 403 344 85%
Czech Republic 1928 1726 89.5% 26 20 77% 737 645 88% 0 0 N/A 0 0 N/A
Denmark 867 758 87.4% 13 13 100% 535 488 91%
Estonia 481 426 88.6% 14 11 79% 724 625 86%
Finland 962 854 88.8% 20 14 70% 701 623 89%
France 16207 13511 83.4% 141 119 84% 7398 6594 89% 1417 198 13.97% 2813 295 10.49%
Germany 22230 17306 77.8% 543 460 85% 16437 14112 86% 1460 355 24.32% 6406 1951 30.46%
Greece 1636 1448 88.5% 39 30 77% 777 706 91%
Hungary 709 637 89.8% 20 17 85% 428 378 88%
Ireland 1597 1240 77.6% 42 34 81% 735 670 91% 39 8 20.51% 15 0 0%
Italy 7364 6418 87.2% 223 207 93% 5151 4675 91% 775 137 17.68% 1859 198 10.65%
Latvia 733 666 90.9% 17 12 71% 950 805 85%
Lithuania 495 434 87.7% 14 11 79% 783 674 86%
Luxembourg 76 61 80.3% 1 1 100% 119 116 97%
Malta 90 76 84.4% 3 3 100% 132 116 88%
Netherlands 7025 6060 86.3% 154 137 89% 5261 4773 91% 10 2 20% 0 0 N/A
Poland 9081 7740 85.2% 154 140 91% 4496 3710 83% 14 3 21.43% 2 1 50%
Portugal 1699 1550 91.2% 66 63 95% 1038 961 93% 8 0 0% 6 0 0%
Romania 8181 6699 81.9% 833 707 85% 4837 4456 92%
Slovakia 739 660 89.3% 17 13 76% 584 516 88%
Slovenia 392 361 92.1% 7 5 71% 288 257 89%
Spain 9110 7101 77.9% 144 130 90% 7276 6639 91% 1793 854 47.63% 3922 581 14.81%
Sweden 2695 2463 91.4% 38 33 87% 1518 1362 90%
Iceland 66 56 84.8% 2 1 50% 91 79 87%
Liechtenstein 3 2 66.7% 0 0 0% 5 5 100%
Norway 906 750 82.8% 23 18 78% 534 452 85%