PTA blocks 113,133 TikTok accounts for obscene content

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) submitted a report to the Peshawar High Court detailing actions taken to curb obscene and blasphemous content on social media platforms, including TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram.

Since 2020, the PTA report stated, over 114,015 explicit videos were uploaded to TikTok, leading to the blocking of 113,133 accounts.

An additional 2,463 posts featuring blasphemous material were also blocked, the report noted.

In 2023, 25,267 instances of explicit content were uploaded, resulting in the blocking of 24,800 accounts on TikTok.

The PTA report further disclosed that across multiple platforms—such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and X (formerly Twitter)—a total of 1,389,181 instances of obscene content were reported, of which 1,303,578 links were blocked.

Specific actions included blocking 147,579 links on Facebook, 22,357 on Instagram, 125,600 on TikTok, 53,162 on YouTube, and 53,842 on X.

The PTA emphasised that it continues to work with social media companies to curb the spread of inappropriate and blasphemous material on their platforms.