
TikTok claims to have deleted about 29,000 coronavirus-related videos that have broken its rules in Europe alone since the beginning of 2020.
The video sharing app states that it does not allow for misinformation which could harm an individual's health or public safety.
He said about 3,000 of them contained medical disinformation and described the numbers as "low level".
The number of coronavirus-themed videos breaking the rules has decreased every month, from a peak in March, he said.
On July 9, the company released its latest transparency report, stating that 49 million videos had been removed between July and December 2019.
About a quarter of these have been eliminated to contain adult nudity or sexual activity.
The business said it was "difficult to measure with absolute certainty" how many videos this year contained disinformation about the coronavirus.
But he said he added an informational coronavirus banner to posts containing words, hashtags or music related to Covid-19.
He described the numbers as "low level".
TikTok claimed to have applied the banner to seven million videos in Europe since the beginning of 2020 - 700,000 of those from the creators of the United Kingdom.
He added that his coronavirus information page has been viewed more than 52 million times in the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain.
Analysis
by Marianna Spring, disinformation specialist and social media reporterWhile these numbers show some of TikTok's actions in the fight against disinformation, it became increasingly clear during the pandemic that conspiracy theories - coronavirus or otherwise - still thrive on the platform.
This includes everything from videos promoting false claims linking 5G to the virus, to the most recent unfounded conspiracy theory that suggests that the furniture firm Wayfair is involved in a child trafficking operation. These too can cause harm.
Some of this content has been removed, but conspiracies of all varieties haunt the app's younger audience.
TikTok's policy that prohibits disinformation that causes harm to the public is a firm point to be met.
And the platform's mysteriously mysterious algorithms and search tools make it even more difficult for users, journalists and journalists to find and mark what is shared.
The U.S. election in November is expected to be a key place for online conversations and TikTok will face increasing pressure to deal with disinformation on its platform.
