The coronavirus pandemic has caused a lot of problems for tech companies who are fighting to curb the spread of spam and misinformation surrounding the ongoing health crisis. Just yesterday, Facebook announced new measures to decrease the spread of misinformation on its platform.

Axar.az reports citing foreign media that now, Google has announced that the company blocked over 18 million coronavirus related emails on Gmail. This is in addition to Google blocking more than 240 million COVID-related daily spam messages. The company noted that its machine learning algorithm has been filtering spam with a 99.9% success rate. Google noted that common spam emails included attackers pretending to be WHO/Government and asking for a donation or giving stimulus checks.