Tiktok announced a public launch on Wednesday FootnoteA crowd-sort-checking system similar to the facility of community notes of X and meta. Technology will initially roll American users as a pilot program, allowing contributors to both writing and rate footnote on tickets.
All US Tikkok users are able to see notes that have been rated as useful and present their ratings in turn.
The company first announced its plans to test footnots in April. At that time, it described the convenience as a way to give more reference to the community around the content of Tikokok.
Like the X’s community notes and other similar programs, Tikocok uses a bridging algorithm that tries to find a consensus among those who usually have different views. If both sides consider a note as a accessory, according to this method, it is more likely to come true. It is also a guard against brigading, where a side tries to take a decision in a similar way.
The company says that notes can help people understand what they are looking at the stage by adding more information and reference. Sometimes the person who has posted the video, receives a note, actively trying to present a situation incorrectly, while other times they can simply miss other information or updates that may be helpful to the audience.
Tiktok started allowing us to users apply To be an contributor in April, as long as he was at least 18 years old, was on tiktok for more than six months, and there was no recent history to violate the community standards of Tiktok. Since then, Ticketkok says that around 80,000 US users have qualified as footnotes contributors.
However, the new, community notes-style features for Tikok have been present for many years.
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Twitter pledged the idea, originally called Birdwatch in 2020. This officially rolled out the Burdwatch Fact-Czech next year and expanded the program globally in 2022. Now called community notes, this feature is expanded under the ownership of Twitter/X of Elon Musk. Recently, those efforts include AI to generate notes and new methods to use the system to highlight the popular materials on the platform.
X open source Community notes concepts have inspired similar systems in other social media companies-especially in search of traditionalists who felt that traditional fact-tingles system was biased against them.
In the hope of amending with the Trump administration and thwarting increased regulation, Meta dropped the facts in favor of its own community notes system in the US this year, raising concerns about the spread of misinformation. YouTube is also experimenting with its convenience on this type of system, called notes, which was launched last year.
However, Ticketkok says that its footnotes initiative will expand on its existing global fact-locomotive program, not to replace it.
The company says it continues to work with more than 20 IFCNIn more than 60 languages and in 130 markets around the world, facts were accepted.
