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 analysis describes what TikTok's agreement states, permits, or reserves. It does not constitute a legal determination about enforceability. Regulatory applicability and practical outcomes may vary by jurisdiction, enforcement context, and individual circumstances. Read our methodology
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.
The updated Community Guidelines footer no longer includes a direct link to TikTok's Children's Privacy Policy. Previously, users navigating the Community Guidelines could access child-specific privacy disclosures through the footer link. The Children's Privacy Policy itself may remain available on TikTok's platform, but this change reduces the visibility and discoverability of that document from the Community Guidelines page. Users seeking child privacy information from the Community Guidelines will need to navigate elsewhere or search for it independently.
View change record →The Community Guidelines document no longer contains the substantive explanations of prohibited conduct, safety standards, and platform rules that previously appeared in one consolidated location. Users must now navigate to separate linked resources to understand what content is allowed, what triggers removal, and how the For You feed operates. This change makes it less convenient to quickly review the full range of platform rules, though the underlying policies themselves appear to remain accessible through linked pages.
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Compare across platforms →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 …
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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.
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