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 28
COOPERATION WITH RESEARCHERS Relevant Signatories commit to support good faith research into Disinformation that involves their services.
We signed up to the following measures of this commitment
Measure 28.1 Measure 28.2 Measure 28.3 Measure 28.4
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 28.1
Relevant Signatories will ensure they have the appropriate human resources in place in order to facilitate research, and should set-up and maintain an open dialogue with researchers to keep track of the types of data that are likely to be in demand for research and to help researchers find relevant contact points in their organisations.
QRE 28.1.1
Relevant Signatories will describe the resources and processes they deploy to facilitate research and engage with the research community, including e.g. dedicated teams, tools, help centres, programs, or events.
As set out above, TikTok is committed to facilitating research through our Research Tools, Commercial Content APIs and Commercial Content Library, full details of which are available on our TikTok for Developers and Commercial Content Library websites.
TikTok teams and personnel also regularly participate in research-focused events. During this reporting period, we conducted office hours and demos. The transferable nature of the skills provided are such that they could be broadly applied to disinformation research.
- We launched a quarterly series of Research Tools Office Hours for researchers who are onboarded to our Tools and require technical support. We hosted two sessions in February and June.
- We conducted the demos for the following researcher groups: Johns Hopkins University (January), University of Lusofona (March), University of Coimbra (April), York University (April), University of Pennsylvania (April), and invited researchers in Slovakia (June).