Summary

  • Social media platform TikTok has copied the community notes feature from Twitter, which allows users to provide additional context to posts.
  • TikTok is calling the feature ‘Footnotes’ and will allow contributors to add relevant information to content.
  • US users over 18 who have been on the platform for longer than six months and who have not violated community guidelines can apply to be contributors.
  • Footnotes uses a ranking system whereby footnotes are deemed helpful or not by a selection of users, and only those that are considered helpful are made visible to the community for further voting.
  • The more footnotes are written and rated on a range of topics, the more intelligent the system becomes.
  • TikTok plans to roll the feature out in the US for short-form videos over the coming months.

By Wes Davis

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