TikTok prohibits all content that promotes, glorifies, or facilitates terrorism, mass violence, or violent extremism, including content from designated terrorist organizations — such content is removed immediately and may be reported to law enforcement.
This provision reflects both TikTok's legal obligations and its community safety commitments, but the breadth of 'glorification' language creates risk of over-removal of journalistic, educational, or counter-extremism content.
REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: EU Regulation 2021/784 (Terrorist Content Online Regulation, TCOR) requires hosting services to remove terrorist content within one hour of a removal order from a competent authority, with penalties up to 4% of global annual turnover for systemic non-compliance. The DSA (Art. 34) requires VLOP risk assessments for terrorist and violent extremist content. In the US, 18 U.S.C. § 2339B prohibits material support for designated terrorist organizations; platforms may face civil liability under the Anti-Terrorism Act (18 U.S.C. § 2333) if they knowingly provide substantial assistance to terrorist activity. The UK Terrorism Act 2000 and Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 impose additional obligations.
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TikTok's Community Guidelines grant the platform broad, largely discretionary authority to remove content and suspend or permanently ban accounts for violations ranging from explicit harms like child exploitation to broadly defined categories like 'misinformation' and 'harmful or dangerous acts,' which may affect creators and ordinary users alike. Users under 16 face additional content restrictions and feature limitations, and users under 13 are subject to a separate, more restrictive experience under COPPA compliance obligations. You can appeal content removals and account actions directly within the TikTok app by navigating to Settings, then Support, then Report a Problem.