TikTok, like a number of different major social media platforms, is now turning to customers to assist battle misinformation.
The favored video-sharing app introduced Wednesday that customers accepted into its pilot program can begin offering extra context to quick movies and charge different customers’ feedback as a part of the brand new Footnotes characteristic.
TikTok first introduced in April that it was testing Footnotes, opening up functions for customers to grow to be contributors within the pilot.
“Footnotes attracts on the collective data of the TikTok group by permitting individuals so as to add related data to content material on our platform,” the platform mentioned.
Very similar to the Community Notes programs at each X and Meta, solely Footnotes which are deemed useful by sufficient contributors who sometimes have differing opinions will grow to be seen to others.
In its April announcement, TikTok famous its rating system was impressed by the open-source system utilized by different platforms, linking to a web page detailing the supply code behind Twitter’s Community Notes. Twitter was renamed X following its acquisition by Elon Musk.
Meta, the father or mother firm of Instagram and Fb, equally adopted the Group Notes strategy earlier this 12 months to switch its third-party fact-checking program — a call that was highly scrutinized given the timing of the announcement shortly earlier than President Trump took workplace.
Nonetheless, not like X and Meta, TikTok will not be ditching its fact-checking program.
“Footnotes provides to those efforts with extra methods so as to add useful particulars that could be lacking, finally enriching discussions on TikTok and enhancing the expertise for viewers, contributors and creators alike,” the platform mentioned in April.
Along with rolling out Footnotes, TikTok additionally introduced a number of new security and well-being options Wednesday.
The platform is including new options for parental oversight of juvenile accounts. Dad and mom will now be capable of obtain automated notifications when their youngsters add content material that’s seen to others and have higher perception into their privateness settings.
TikTok can also be including new “missions” aimed toward boosting well-being, in addition to new instruments to permit creators to filter out sure feedback, phrases, phrases and emojis on their content material and pre-check whether or not their content material qualifies for customers’ predominant feed.