TikTok Adds Community Notes Feature to Combat Misinformation
The app, which is owned by Chinese parent ByteDance Ltd., remains in flux as it faces a potential US ban.
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TikTok is testing a new “community notes”-style feature, called Footnotes, to add more context to posts that may be misleading or inaccurate.
Footnotes will appear alongside videos on the app to “add helpful details that may be missing,” according to a company blog post. Those additional details are crowd-sourced from the app’s user base. Footnotes will only appear if they’ve been rated “helpful” by the company’s algorithm, which will take into account whether “people who usually have different opinions” agree on the note’s context, the post reads.