TikTok begins testing Footnotes, a new Community Notes-like feature

Tiktok tests a new “footnotation” feature that works similarly to the Community notes on the X. Social network announced on Wednesday that the footnotes will allow users to add additional contexts and relevant information to the videos to help others understand certain content, starting with the United States.

The company says that the footnotes will complement its current package of measures intended for people to understand content reliability, such as the contents of the content and its fact of fact. In other words, the Tictok does not replace the verification of the facts of footnotes, as opposed to the meta, which does it through its A feature of new community notes.

Similar to other community notes systems on X and FacebookFootnotes uses a bridge -based ranking system intended to find an agreement between people who usually have different opinions, says the UA company blog blog.

The system works by allowing users who have different opinions and vote on the usefulness of the footnote. Footheses will become visible to the community only after being rated as “useful”. At this point, a wider tictic community can vote and its usefulness. Tictok says the system will become more effective because more footnotes are written and evaluated on different topics.

While Tiktok’s comments compartment and other tools such as SPITCH and DUET allow users to share a video dialogue, the new footnote feature gives users a new way to share their expertise and add a layer of context using a consensitive approach to improve credibility. Tictok points out that footnotes could be particularly useful in cases where videos cover stacked steM topics, include potentially wrong statistics or share liquid events updates.

Starting a new feature comes as a tictok called Disinformation spread about Important topics like health and choice. Tiktok is probably hoping that the introduction of footnotes will help suppress some of these disinformations by the expansion of their user base to add credibility and additional context to videos.

As of today, users of the United States may report In order to contribute to the footnotes if they are at least 18 years old, they have been on the platform for more than six months and do not have a recent history of Tiktok’s community guidelines.

Tiktok plans to start appearing footnotes from associates over the coming months. Currently, it is unknown what the footnotes will look like and where it will appear in the video.

Tiktok says that it continues to “partners with more than 20 organizations that check the facts that are checked by IFCN to evaluate the accuracy of content in Tictok in more than 60 languages ​​and 130 markets around the world. Football adds these efforts with more ways to add useful details that may be lacking, AI contributions” and improvements, and are improved at TICTOK.