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TikTok Launches Footnotes — A Crowdsourced Fact‑Checking Tool for Context and Clarity

On July 30, 2025, TikTok officially rolled out “Footnotes”—its community-driven fact‑checking feature in the United States 🇺🇸. Inspired by Twitter/X’s Community Notes and similar systems by Meta, Footnotes invites vetted users to provide additional context, corrections, or clarifications under videos that may contain misinformation, misleading claims, or incomplete context. At a time when TikTok serves […]