Tiktok is testing a new “footnotes” feature that works similar to Community notes for X. The social network announced on Wednesday that footnotes will allow users to add additional framework and related video information to help others understand some of the contents.
The company says the footnotes will complement the current suite of the measures designed to help people understand the credibility of the content, such as content labels and the event control program. In other words, Tiktok does not replace control of events with footnotes, as opposed to Meta, which is exactly what it does through the new characteristic of the community.
Similar to other Community notes on X and Facebook, footnotes use a bridge -based ranking system to find an agreement between people who usually have different views, the company says in a blog.
The system works by allowing users who have different views to leave and vote for service, a footnote. Footnotes will only be visible to the community as soon as they are graded as “useful”. At this point, the wider Tiktok community can also vote for their service. Tiktok says the system will become more effective as more footnotes are written and scored on different issues.
While Tiktok’s commentary section and other tools such as Stitch and Duet allow users to share a dialogue about a video, new footnotes function gives users a new way to share their experience and add a framework of a framework using a consensual approach to enhance reliability. Tiktok points out that footnotes could be particularly useful in cases where videos cover STEM complex issues, may include misleading statistics or updates on continuing events.
The launch of the new feature comes as tiktok has been called up for dissemination of misinformation for Important issues such as health and elections. Tiktok probably hopes that the introduction of footnotes will help to limit the spread of some of this misinformation, identifying its users’ base to add reliability and additional video frame.
Starting today, users of the United States can apply To be a symbolist of footnotes if he is at least 18 years old, they are on the platform for more than six months and do not have a recent history of violating Tiktok Community Directives.
Tiktok plans to start the footnotes from the contributors in the coming months. At the moment, it is unknown exactly what the footnotes will look like and where they will appear in a video.
Tiktok says he continues to “work with more than 20 control organizations found by IFCN to evaluate the accuracy of content in Tiktok in more than 60 languages and 130 markets worldwide.
