Gardaí join EU operation to counter extremist content on TikTok

Last week, TikTok revealed it shut down a network of accounts designed to spread disinformation and division in Ireland.

A TikTok spokesperson said: "More than nine in 10 items of content we remove for violent extremism are proactively identified by TikTok and removed before it is reported — or viewed in most cases.”  File photo

Ireland took part in an operation co-ordinated by the EU targeting terrorist and violent extremist content on the popular social media platform TikTok.

More than 2,000 videos were flagged to the online giant that related to jihadism and violent right-wing extremism.