TikTok posts EU hate‑speech report

TikTok published its first European Union hate-speech transparency report on April 10, laying out how it detects, reviews and removes illegal hate content. (newsroom.tiktok.com) The report was filed under the European Union Code of Conduct on Countering Illegal Hate Speech Online Plus, a voluntary code that was folded into the Digital Services Act on January 20, 2025. TikTok said it has more than 178 million users across the European Union. (digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu, newsroom.tiktok.com) TikTok said 88.7% of content reported to it in the European Commission’s first monitoring exercise under the revised code was reviewed within 24 hours. It also said that, in the last quarter of 2025, 96.3% of content it removed globally for hate-speech rule violations was taken down before any user report. (newsroom.tiktok.com, digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu) The company said users in the second half of 2025 submitted 56,549 illegal-hate-speech reports, covering 30,128 unique pieces of content. TikTok has been a signatory to the European Union hate-speech code since September 2020. (newsroom.tiktok.com) The code is one piece of the Digital Services Act system, which pushes the biggest platforms to show how they handle illegal content and reduce systemic risks. The revised version also asks companies for more detailed reporting, including information on outcomes, reach and country-level breakdowns. (digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu, digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu) The European Commission’s first results under the revised code, also published April 10, combined a “mystery shopping” test by nonprofit and public-sector monitors with self-assessments from platforms. Only five signatories — Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X and YouTube — received relevant notifications during the reporting window from early November to mid-December 2025. (digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu) The Commission said the participating platforms generally kept their commitment to review most alleged illegal hate-speech notices within 24 hours, but it also found that all covered signatories except X treated a significant share of cases as disputed or erroneous. The Commission said many of those errors appeared to come from monitors using the wrong reporting channels. (digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu) TikTok framed the new filing as an extension of a broader transparency program it already runs in Europe under the Digital Services Act. In its sixth Europe moderation report, published February 27, TikTok said it removed about 112 million pieces of content from July through December 2025 and that automated systems actioned 93.8% of all violating content without human review. (newsroom.tiktok.com) The new hate-speech report lands while TikTok is still under wider European Union scrutiny on other Digital Services Act duties. The European Commission said on February 6, 2026 that it had preliminarily found TikTok’s addictive design in breach of the law, after opening formal proceedings in February 2024 that also covered harmful-content and transparency issues. (digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu, digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu) For TikTok, the report turns a broad legal promise into a public scorecard: how fast notices are reviewed, how much content is caught before users flag it, and how much detail regulators now expect platforms to publish. (newsroom.tiktok.com, digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu)