Twitter has challenged over 4 million accounts for violating its coronavirus rules

In its Q2 2020 earnings report, Twitter announced that it has removed 15,000 tweets and challenged 4.5 million accounts for violating its coronavirus rules.

Twitter wrote that as part of its health work, it "aggressively targeted misinformation and toxic or abusive content relating to COVID-19."

The company also stated that it would be "launching additional proactive detection and remediation tools to reduce abuse and hate speech."

The release of these stats follows Twitter introducing a series of sweeping restrictions since March that have limited what users are allowed to say about the coronavirus.

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