The era of the Tiktok community begins today

TIKTOK users in the United States will soon watch checks obtained from the crowd appearing alongside videos on the platform. The application began to launch footnotes, its copies of the community’s notes, the company .

Tiktok announced its plan to adopt the feature again Since then, approximately 80,000 users have been approved as shareholders. Footnotes similar to the community’s notes on X. The shareholders can add a note to the videos with wrong claims or content created from artificial intelligence or which requires more context. Contributions are required to cite a source of the information they provide and other shareholders need an evaluation of a useful footnote before they appear widely. Like X, Tiktok will use a dam algorithm to determine notes that have reached a “wide level of consensus”.

According to screenshots that the company shares, the lower footnotes will appear prominently under the video suspension. Users will be able to read full observation and display a link to their source materials.

While Tiktok is the latest main platform to adopt an approach from the crowd to verify the truth, The company continues to work with professional fact -verification organizations, including in the United States. The company also indicates that the footnotes will be subject to the same criteria for content baptism as the rest of its platform, and that people can report notes that may break their bases. However, a note will not affect whether a specific video clip is qualified to obtain recommendations in the “for you” summary.

At the present time, the company does not make any obligations to offering the system outside the United States. “We have chosen the US market because it is large enough to have an environmental content system that can support this type of test,” Erica Ruzic, Erica Ruzic, said during a press event. “We will evaluate in the coming weeks and months, as we see how our American pilot is going, whether we want to expand this to additional markets.”

The footnotes test comes in a moment that the company’s future in the United States remains in a state of forgetfulness. President Donald Trump has been late for a possible ban Since he took office in January, a long -length “deal” to create a The entity has not yet been achieved. Trump said An agreement can be announced in “two weeks”. Since then, there have been reports that Tiktok owner has been working on a new work, From the application in anticipation of a deal. Tiktok representatives refused to comment on these reports, which suggested that such an application could appear in early September.