Tiktok is testing a new feature of “foot notes” that works in a similar way to community notes in X. The social network announced Wednesday that foot notes will allow users to add additional context and information relevant to videos to help others better understand the certain content, starting in the United States.
The company says that foot notes will complement its current set of measures designed to help people understand content reliability, such as content labels and their fact verification program. In other words, Tiktok is not replacing the verification of facts with the footnotes, unlike the goal, which is doing exactly that through its New characteristic of community notes.
Similar to other community notes systems in unknown and FacebookFoot notes use a bridge -based classification system designed to find an agreement between people who generally have different opinions, says the company in a Blog.
The system works by allowing users who have different opinions to leave and vote the help of a footnote. Foot notes will only become visible to the community once they are qualified as “useful.” At this point, the widest community of Tiktok can also vote on your help. Tiktok says the system will become more effective as more footnotes are written and classified on different topics.
Although the Tiktok comments section and other tools such as Stitch and Duet allow users to share the dialogue about a video, the new footnote function provides users a new way of sharing their experience and adding a context layer using a consensus -based approach to improve credibility. Tiktok points out that foot notes could be particularly useful in cases where videos cover complex Stem issues, include potentially deceptive statistics or share updates on current events.
The launch of the new function occurs as Tiktok has been called to Disseminate erroneous information about Important issues such as health and elections. Tiktok probably expects the introduction of page notes to help stop the propagation of some of this wrong information by enlisting its user base to add credibility and additional context to the videos.
As of today, United States users can apply To be a taxpayer of the footnotes if they are at least 18 years old, they have been on the platform for more than six months and have no recent background to violate the guidelines of the Tiktok community.
Tiktok plans to begin to arise at the foot of taxpayers in the coming months. At the moment, it is unknown how exactly the footnotes will be seen and where they will appear in a video.
Tiktok says that it continues to “associate with more than 20 verification organizations of facts accredited by IFCN to evaluate the precision of the Tiktok content in more than 60 languages and 130 markets worldwide. The notes at the foot of the page are added to these efforts with more ways of adding useful details that can be missing, finally enriching the discussions about Tiktok and improving the experience for the spectators, taxpayers The creators that can be missing, enriched. “
