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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Elections 2025
[Note: Signatories are requested to provide information relevant to their particular response to the threats and challenges they observed on their service(s). They ensure that the information below provides an accurate and complete report of their relevant actions. As operational responses to crisis/election situations can vary from service to service, an absence of information should not be considered a priori a shortfall in the way a particular service has responded. Impact metrics are accurate to the best of signatories’ abilities to measure them].
Threats observed or anticipated

We have comprehensive measures in place to anticipate and address the risks associated with electoral processes, including the risks associated with election misinformation, in the context of the following elections held during the reporting period:

1. Portugal Presidential Election held on 18 January 2026.
2. Slovenia Parliamentary Election held on 22 March 2026.
3. Denmark General Election held on 24 March 2026.
4. Hungary Parliamentary Election held on 12 April 2026 
5. Bulgaria Parliamentary Election held on 19 April 2026. 
6. Cyprus Parliamentary Election held on 24 May 2026
7. Malta General Election held on 30 May 2026.

Collectively referred to in this chapter as the “Elections”.




In advance of the Elections, a core election Task-Force was formed, and consultations between cross-functional teams helped to identify and design response strategies.




Through the Elections, we monitored for and actioned inauthentic behaviour and removed content that violated our Community Guidelines.


Please see Identifying and removing CIO networks (Commitment 14, Measure 14.1) below for details on the covert influence operations we removed.



Mitigations in place
Investing in media literacy

We invest in media literacy campaigns as a counter-misinformation strategy.


Please see Rolling out Media literacy campaigns (Commitment 17, Measure 17.2) below for details on each Election Centre. 


Additionally, we published Newsroom posts relating to the elections below:


External engagement at the national and EU levels

  • Rapid Response System: external collaboration with COCD Signatories
    • The COCD Election Rapid Response System (“RRS”) was utilised to exchange information among civil society organisations, fact-checkers, and online platforms. TikTok received 33 RRS during the relevant period. Throughout the election period for each of the Elections, the team maintained consistent prioritisation of RRS requests and ensured timely, accurate support for cross-functional partners.

  • Engagement with local experts
    • To further promote election integrity, and inform our approach to the Elections, we organised an Election Speaker Series with local fact-checking partners who shared their insights and market expertise with our internal teams.
      • Portugal: Speaker Series was held with Polígrafo on 13 January 2026.
      • Slovenia: Speaker Series was held with LeadStories on 12 March 2026.
      • Hungary: Speaker Series was held with LeadStories on 1 April 2026.
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