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

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By Karla T Vasquez

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Tikatok is examining a new “footnote” feature that works the same with community notes in X -in. Social Network has announced Wednesday that footnotes will start to add additional contexts and relevant information to videos to help others understand some content better.

The agency says that footnotes will complement the current suit of its current systems designed to help people understand the reliability of the content and its fact-checking programs. In other words, Tiktok is not replacing the fact-checking with footnotes, contrast to Meta, which is doing just this through its new community note properties.

Like other community note systems on X and Facebook, footprints use a bridge-based ranking system designed to look for a contract among people who usually have different views, the company said at one Blog postThe

The system works with the permission of users who have different opinions to leave and vote with the footnote. If the footnotes are rated only as “help” will become visible to the community. At this point, the broad ticket community can also vote with their help. Tickets say that the system will become more effective because more footnote is written on various topics and rated.

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Tickets’ comment section and other tools such as stitch and duet allows users to share conversations around a video, new footnotes give users a new way to add a level of context using the sens-driven approach to share their skills and increase credibility. Tickets point out that footnotes can be especially effective where videos cover complex stem subjects, include potentially confusing statistics or share updates on running events.

The introduction of the new feature has been called for the ticket when it comes Mislead About Important things like health and selectionThe Tikatok is probably hoping that the introduction of footnotes will help to spread some of these incorrect information by enrolling its user’s base to add credibility and additional context to videos.

Starting today, US users can Apply If they are at least 18 years of age as a contributor to footnotes, they have been on the platform for more than six months and have no recent history of violation of the ticket community’s guidelines.

Tickets are planning to start surfessing footnotes from contributors to the next months. At this point, the footnotes will look like and where they will appear in a video are unknown.

Tiktok says that it continues to be parted with more than 20 IFCN-recognized fact-cheeking companies, which are more than 605 languages ​​and 5 markets to evaluate tiktok content. For, “



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