TikTok trials it’s own take on X-style “community notes” against misinformation

To add context to videos, social media behemoth TikTok has launched Footnotes: a crowd-sourced fact-checking feature similar to the “community notes” used by X and Meta. TikTok’s version though, takes a different approach — complementing it’s professional fact-checking, and not replacing it. It is trialling first in the US, where it’s future currently hangs in the balance, as the deadline for its US divestiture is just months away. Vedika Bahl tells us what we know, in Truth or Fake.