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<div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1744851563912TIKTOK.png" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/></div><div><br/></div><p>TikTok on Wednesday said it is testing a feature that would let people add &quot;Footnotes&quot; providing informative context to videos that might be misleading.</p><p>The feature being tested in the United States, where the short-form video sharing app has some 170 million users, appears similar to Community Notes on X, formerly Twitter.</p><p>Unlike X though, TikTok will continue its own fact-checking program to fight misinformation, head of operations Adam Presser said in a blog post.</p><p>&quot;Footnotes will draw on the collective knowledge of the TikTok community by allowing people to add relevant information to content on our platform,&quot; Presser said.</p><p>&quot;It will add to our suite of measures that help people understand the reliability of content and access authoritative sources, including our content labels, search banners, our fact-checking program, and more.&quot;</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/technology/2025/4/3/tiktok-removes-4-5-million-videos-in-philippines-for-breaking-community-guidelines-1844">TikTok deletes 4.5 million videos in PH for breaking community guidelines</a></div><p>Adult US users who have been on TikTok for more than six months and haven&#x27;t violated its community guidelines were invited to apply to contribute to Footnotes.</p><p>Contributors will also be able to rate Footnotes left by other people.</p><p>Footnotes deemed as &quot;helpful&quot; will be made visible on TikTok, at which point any users can vote on them as feedback regarding their merit, according to Presser.</p><p>&quot;Whether the content discusses a complex STEM-related concept, shares statistics that could misrepresent a topic, or updates about an ongoing event, there may be additional context that could help others better understand it,&quot; Presser said.</p><p>&quot;That&#x27;s why we&#x27;re building Footnotes.&quot;</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/technology/2025/4/5/trump-extends-deadline-for-tiktok-sale-for-second-time-0834">Trump extends deadline for TikTok sale for second time</a></div><p>Footnotes will augment TikTok&#x27;s existing integrity measures such as labeling content that can&#x27;t be verified and partnering with fact-checking organizations such as AFP to assess the accuracy of posts on the platform.</p><p>Meta early this year ended its third-party fact-checking program in the United States, with chief executive Mark Zuckerberg saying it had led to &quot;too much censorship.&quot;</p><p>As an alternative, Zuckerberg said Meta&#x27;s platforms, Facebook and Instagram, would use &quot;Community Notes,&quot; similar to the Elon Musk-owned X.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/technology/2025/2/20/how-tiktok-balances-ai-human-moderation-to-protect-users-1422">How TikTok balances AI, human moderation to protect users</a></div><p>Community Notes is a crowd-sourced moderation tool that X has promoted as a way for users to add context to posts, but researchers have repeatedly questioned its effectiveness in combating falsehoods.</p><p>Supporters of President Donald Trump, among others, have contended without proof that conservative voices were being censored or stifled under the guise of fighting misinformation, a claim professional fact-checkers vehemently reject.</p><p>TikTok is adding Footnotes as its China-based parent company ByteDance faces a deadline to sell the app or have it banned in the United States.</p><p>Trump has said there was a deal on the sale of TikTok, but tariffs recently imposed by Washington on Beijing derailed it.</p><p>ByteDance, while confirming recently that it was in talks with the US government on finding a solution, warned that there remained &quot;key matters&quot; to resolve.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/technology/2025/1/28/tiktok-launches-ph-election-center-for-may-polls-1519">TikTok launches &#x27;PH Election Center&#x27; for May polls</a></div><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div><div><iframe width="853" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cQFxkwpVn50" title="Comelec, Tiktok team up for 2025 elections | ABS-CBN News" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div>

<p>TikTok on Wednesday said it is testing a feature that would let people add "Footnotes" providing informative context to videos that might be misleading.</p>

TikTok on Wednesday said it is testing a feature that would let people add "Footnotes" providing informative context to videos that might be misleading.

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TikTok tests letting users add informative 'Footnotes'

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Published Apr 17, 2025 09:03 AM PHT

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