TikTok Begins US Testing of Footnotes, a Community-Sourced Context Tool

TikTok tests letting users add informative ‘Footnotes’

TikTok is testing a feature that will let people add "Footnotes" providing informative context to videos that might be misleading.

TikTok trials it’s own take on X-style “community notes” against misinformation

To add context to videos, social media behemoth TikTok has launched Footnotes: a crowd-sourced fact-checking feature similar to the "community notes" used by X and Meta. TikTok's version though, takes a different approach -- complementing it's professional fact-checking, and not replacing it. It is trialling first in the US, where it's future currently hangs in the balance, as the deadline for its US divestiture is just months away. Vedika Bahl …

"Footnotes build on the collective knowledge of the TikTok community by allowing people to add relevant information to content on our platform," said Adam Presser, manager of the video platform, on Wednesday. According to TikTok, not all of the approximately 170 million U.S. users will be allowed to leave footnotes. According to TikTok, users who have had an account for more than six months and have not violated the platform's guidelines can app…

The TikTok platform will test a feature that will allow users to add “Footnotes” that provide context to videos that may contain false or misleading information.The app, which belongs to the Chinese ByteDance group, announced on Wednesday the launch of this tool, similar to the “Community Notes” function of the social network X (formerly Twitter), later copied by Meta (Facebook, Instagram).First it will evaluate it in the United States, where it…

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TikTok Is Getting Community Notes Now Too

TikTok is joining the ranks of social networks with Community Notes programs, which allow users to add context, corrections, and additional information to posts on the platform. The new feature is called Footnotes, and it will be rolled out first on short-form videos in the U.S.