Tiktok is testing out footnotes, which is effectively its version of X’S Community NotesThe company announced the new feature wedding in a blog post on its website.
Tiktok is just the latest social media platform to roll out its version of communication notes, joining giants like Facebook and InstagramThe idea is that a communication of users can help Combat Misinformation.
In the post announcing the feature, tiktok wrote:
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“Footnotes will draw on the collective knowledge of the tiktok communication by allowing people to add relevant information to content on our platform. It will add to our suite of measures that help people understand the reliability of content and access authoritative sources, include our content labels, search banners, our factor factor More. “
Us users can apply To become footnotes contributors but Must Meet Certain Requirements, Including Being on the Platform for Longer Than Six Months, Being 18 Or Older, Having No Recent Violations of Community Guidelines.
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The tool will relay on users rating the helpfulness of different footnotes.
Wrote tiktok:
“Footnotes will use a bridge-based ranking system designed to find agrement between people who usually have different opinions, inspired by the open-term system That other platforms use. It works by allowing contributors with difference opinions to leave and Vote on the helpfulness of a footnote. Only footnotes that meet the threshold for “helpful” The more footnotes get written and rated on different topics, the smarter and more effective the system are. “
It’s not clear when, exactly, footnotes will launch, but tiktok noted that it’ll open access to the to the tool in the “coming months.”