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Social Media & Content Creation vocabulary · Posting and Publishing

Take down

Meaning in social media & content creation, with examples

phrasal verbCommon term

In social media & content creation, take down means: To remove material that has already been made publicly available, often following a problem or complaint.

In Turkish: yayından kaldırmak

How it is used

Use take down a post or video for withdrawal; platforms and account owners can both perform the action.

Example sentences

  1. We need to take down the video with the incorrect date.

    Already published material is withdrawn to address an error.

  2. The platform may take down posts that violate its rules.

    The platform removes content as an enforcement action.

Common collocations

  • take down a post
  • take down a video
  • moderateTo check comments, messages or posts in an online space and remove or hide anything offensive, spam or against the rules.
  • postA piece of content, such as a photo, video or text, that you publish on a social media account for other people to see.

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