About a year or so ago I began to think about footnotes. First I wondered if I should write footnotes for the film (NUTS!) I was in the final stages of completing. Then I wondered if footnotes might ...

The crowd-sourced approach to moderation, where users add additional context to posts, has become increasingly popular on social media networks after X (then called Twitter) first launched it in 2021.

For all of those doomscrolling on TikTok, a new feature is here to bring additional context to videos, regardless of what weird side of TikTok you might find yourself on. Alongside a series of new ...

Add TikTok to the growing list of social media services with a Community Notes feature. The video app on Wednesday said it is launching its own version of the feature — first made famous by X and ...

As TikTok continues to wait for a deal that will secure its future in the United States, the company is embracing a crowd-sourced approach to fact-checking. The service is adding “Footnotes,” a ...

US users can apply to become ‘Footnotes’ contributors starting today. US users can apply to become ‘Footnotes’ contributors starting today. is a former weekend editor who covered tech and ...

TikTok on Wednesday announced the public launch of Footnotes, a crowdsourced fact-checking system similar to X’s and Meta’s Community Notes feature. The technology will initially roll out to U.S.