TikTok eliminates 60 lakh videos for content violation

Under the scanner of the Indian Government for anti-national and obscene content on the platform, TikTok has started cracking the whip on its content and deleted over 60 lakh videos that have violated the content guidelines in India. 

It may be recalled that the Indian Government recently pulled up TikTok over its content and posed 24 questions related to the posting of anti-national content as well as obscene content and the lower age for logging in on to the platform, which leaves the door open for children. 

Meanwhile, Chinese company Bytedance Technology, the parent company of TikTok, has claimed to have over 20 crore users in India, which is rapidly growing in terms of gaining new users as well as content traffic.

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As is known, Swadeshi Jagran Manch, an RSS-affiliated group, had recently complained of the anti-national content on TikTok, following which, The Ministry of Electronics and IT served the notice to TikTok and posed the 24 questions which were needed to be responded to by the platform by July 22, 2019 or face the possibility of ban.