Children aged 13 and over are allowed to use the TikTok platform, which is highly popular with teenagers.
By
Edna Mwenda
Business Reporter
Nation Media Group
China social media company TikTok removed 48,739 accounts suspected to belong to users under the age of 13 in the quarter to March 2026, marking a 47.98 percent drop compared to the preceding quarter’s 93,704–signalling the gains of previous purges on child users.
TikTok removed over 820,000 videos and banned 108,752 accounts in Kenya in Q4 2025, with most bans linked to underage users, as…
TikTok removed 884,591 videos and nearly 49,000 underage accounts in Kenya during the first quarter of 2026 in efforts to enforce…
Over 884,591 videos deleted in Kenya over guideline violations in Q1 2026, TikTok says some 48,000 underage accounts deactivated.
TikTok removed more than 820,000 videos and banned over 108,000 accounts in Kenya in Q4 2025 as part of a wider safety crackdown…
TikTok has removed more than 1.1 million videos and over 520 000 suspected underage accounts in South Africa as it ramps up…
TikTok and YouTube have deactivated about 4.7 million under-16 accounts in Indonesia after a March regulation on high-risk…
