Safety continues to be a top priority for TikTok, which is why we remain committed to ensuring a secure and positive environment for all users, however, securing a safe online space requires collective commitment. It is for this reason that TikTok hosted the third annual Government Safer Internet Summit, hosting government officials, regulators, online safety partners and industry leaders from across Sub-Saharan Africa, reinforcing the platform's commitment to collaborative approaches to online safety.
The two-day event held in Nairobi, under the theme #SaferTogether: 'Innovation and Safety', marks a significant expansion of the Summit series that began in Ghana in 2024 and continued in Cape Town last year, deepening partnerships with governments and regulators across the Sub-Saharan African region to tackle evolving digital safety challenges.
"As we host the 3rd Annual Safer Internet Summit here in Kenya, our mission is clear: to share learnings, insights and collaboratively advance actionable solutions that protect citizens online. By bringing together a diverse coalition of policymakers, tech innovators, and creators, we are ensuring that the conversations we have at this Summit are all-inclusive and lead to a more resilient digital landscape." Tokunbo Ibrahim, Head of Government Relations and Public Policy, Sub-Saharan Africa
Left to Right: Ambassador Philip Thigo, Special Envoy on Technology, for H.E; Deputy Minister of The Presidency of The Republic of South Africa, Hon. Kenny Morolong ; Tokunbo Ibrahim, Head of Government Relations and Public Policy, Sub-Saharan Africa at TikTok; Cabinet Secretary for Information Communication and Technology, Kenya, Hon. William Kabogo, and Valiant Richey, Global Head Partnerships, Elections & Market Integrity at TikTok.
The Summit featured expert panels and discussions on critical topics including TikTok's Trust and Safety efforts, protecting young people online, and policy frameworks for responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI) governance.
Continued investments in AI Literacy Across Sub-Saharan Africa
A key highlight of the Summit was showcasing how TikTok uses AI to transform how people share their creativity and discover new passions, while ensuring the community remains safe through transparent and responsible AI practices.
At the Summit, TikTok announced an additional investment of $200,000 in ad credits to help support local organisations in Sub-Saharan African to expand AI media literacy. This investment builds on the company’s initial $2M AI Literacy Fund launched in November, which awarded 20 global nonprofits to create content that boosts public understanding of AI.
TikTok continues to invest in AI tools and resources that create meaningful value for its community, while strengthening transparency tools that help people spot, shape, and understand AI-generated content.
Leading with Transparency
Delegates at the Summit learned about TikTok's multi-layered approach to AI transparency:
- Including requirements for creators to label realistic AI-generated content (AIGC)
- Advanced detection technology
- The platform's partnership with the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA)
- use of technologies like Content Credentials and invisible watermarking, which make it easier to identify and label AI-generated content across online platforms.
To date, our efforts have helped label over 1.3 billion videos.
TikTok also shared more about how recent advancements in AI are helping the platform moderate content faster and more consistently at scale, by improving automated moderation and empowering human teams with better moderation tools.
With over 100M pieces of content uploaded daily to TikTok, these advances, which work alongside human moderation teams, are helping get violative content down faster, reducing the likelihood of the community seeing it. According to the latest Community Guidelines Enforcement Q3 2025, TikTok removed over 14 million videos across Sub-Saharan Africa with 96.7% detected and removed proactively using automated technology underscoring TikTok’s commitment to proactive moderation and swift action.
The Summit concluded with commitments from attendees to continue advancing digital safety initiatives across Sub-Saharan Africa, building on the partnerships and insights shared during the two-day event.
What our partners had to say:
"I was pleased to open the third annual Sub-Saharan Africa Safer Internet Summit. This gathering reflects our government’s commitment to collaboration, sector growth, and ensuring a safe digital space for all. As we embrace the opportunities of the digital era, we must protect our people by advancing digital innovation, responsible AI governance, and strong regional partnerships for a secure and thriving online ecosystem." - Cabinet Secretary for Information Communication and Technology, Kenya, Hon. William Kabogo
"We are pleased to be in Nairobi this week reinforcing the strong partnership between South Africa and Kenya. By attending TikTok's Safer Internet Summit today, we look forward to collaborating on advancing responsible AI governance, enhancing content transparency, and strengthening digital safety measures to ensure integrity in AI systems and secure online environments for all users across the continent, including South Africa." - Deputy Minister of The Presidency of The Republic of South Africa, Hon. Kenny Morolong
"Africa is home to some of the most digitally active youth populations, where many engage informally with synthetic content, either as creators or consumers. In this context, Africa Check's approach to AI literacy goes beyond teaching the skills needed to identify AI-generated content. It includes building an understanding of how AI works, which in turn fosters an understanding of how to evaluate outputs for accuracy and use AI responsibly. Partnering with TikTok has allowed us to demonstrate these skills to audiences we might not otherwise have had access to, using real examples of how AI-generated content, if not correctly labelled and used, can pollute the information environment." - Hlalani Gumpo, Head of outreach and Impact at Africa Check
“Our partnership with TikTok to advance AI literacy and counter the surge of sophisticated, AI-generated misinformation was both timely and strategic. Beyond raising public awareness about the risks of manipulated media, the collaboration empowered global — particularly younger — audiences with practical tools to identify AI-driven deception and engage with information more responsibly. By combining accessible educational content with TikTok’s promotional tools and ad credits, the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID), through its independent fact-checking platform DUBAWA, significantly reached a wider audience beyond organic distribution, delivering a high-impact AI literacy campaign.” — Hillary Nwoziri, Communications Manager, CJID.
"Partnering with TikTok to amplify our work on digital and AI literacy for children revealed the incredible potential of meeting young people where they already are. In just three months, we reached over 160 million people, most of them children. The engagement confirmed what we've always believed: when children are given the right information in spaces they trust, they are eager to learn, question, and help shape their digital future." Jennifer Kaberi - Founder and Executive director Mtoto News International
For more information on TikTok’s safety policies and initiatives, visit our Safety Centre, Teen Safety Center, Monetisation Guidelines.