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Tiktok follows X’s management with a new audience from debunking of the crowd
Tiktok has rolled out a crowd that is focused on debunking in the United States and followed in the footsteps of platforms such as X with a community -driven strategy.
Washington DC – Tiktok On Wednesday, a crowd of crowds in the United States rolled out and became the latest technical platform to adopt a community -controlled strategy to combat error information online.
Tiktok has rolled out a new crowd that is organized debunking in the United States called Footnotes. © Unsplash/@Collabstr
Footnotes, a feature that the popular video sharing app began to test in April, enables controlled users to propose written context for content that may be wrong or misleading-like community notes on meta and X.
“Footnotes are based on the collective knowledge of the Tiktok community by allowing people to add relevant information to content,” said Adam Presser, the platform’s manager for operations and confidence and security, in a blog post.
“As of today, American users in the footnoter pilot program can start writing and rating footnotes on short videos, and our American society will start to see the ranked as useful – and rate them too,” he added.
TikTok said that almost 80,000 US-based users, who have maintained an account for at least six months, have qualified as a footnoter contributors. The video sharing app has about 170 million American users.
TikTok said that the function will increase the platform’s existing integrity measures as labeling content that cannot be verified and collaborates with fact control organizations, such as AFP, to assess the accuracy of posts on the platform.
The publicly verification system was popularized by ELON MUSICs platform XBut researchers have repeatedly questioned its effectiveness when it comes to combating falsehoods.
Technical platforms have increasingly come to see the socially run model as an alternative to professional fact control. © Unsplash/@Meymigrou
Earlier this month, a study found more than 90% of XS Community notes Never published, which highlights large limits for efficiency.
The Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas (DDIA) study analyzed the entire public data right of 1.76 million notes published by X between January 2021 and March 2025.
Tiktok warned that it may take some time for a footnote to become public, when the contributors get started and become more familiar with the function.
“The more footnotes are written and rated on different topics, the smarter and more efficient the system becomes,” Presser said.
Technical platforms increasingly see the socially run model as an alternative to professional fact control.
Earlier this year, Meta stopped its Third party fact control Programs in the United States, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg who said it had led to “too much censorship.”
The decision was generally seen as an attempt to calm president Donald Trumpwhose conservative base has long complained that fact control on technical platforms serves to limit freedom of expression and censorship to the right content.
Professional fact checks hardly reject the statement.
As an alternative, Zuckerberg said that Metas platforms, Facebook and Instagram, would use “Community Notes.”
Studies have shown that social notes can work to expel certain falsehoods, such as vaccine error information, but researchers have long warned that it works best for topics where there is broad consensus.
Some researchers have also warned that social notes users may be motivated to focus on political opponents of party faith.
