Since Tiktok continues to wait for the transaction that will ensure its future in the United States, the company adheres to the crowdsur approach to checking the facts. Service Adds “Feminospheres”, a function similar to a community that will allow participants to add “more context” to the video on the platform.
“Feminos offer people a new opportunity to share their experience and add an additional layer of context to the discussion using a consensus approach,” wrote the head of operations and trust Tiktok, as well as the trust and safety of Adam Presser.
The update, which, apparently, was on the company's road map since last year, makes Tiktok the latest platform, which added a version of notes of crowdsourcing, popularized X. However, unlike META, which recently began to publish community notes about its applications, Tiktok renewal will not be changed in the policy of moderation or it of it Partnership on verification of factsInstead, the company instead of this describes the change as a way for users to “add useful parts that may be absent.” Femicles will not affect the algorithmic rating of the video or its ability to appear on the page “for you.”
The press says that the company will use the “Bridge rating system, designed to search for an agreement between people who usually have different opinions inspired by an open source system used by other platforms.” This is clearly a link to X, which created a ranking system that requires participants to evaluate each other's notes before they become publicly visible. Meta Accepted Community X notes the algorithm for its own applications. But while the Tiktok approach can be inspired by X, the company plans to use its own algorithm for footnotes.
It is not yet clear how exactly the footnotes will look on Tiktok or how much they will be noticeable. Like the notes of the community on X, footnotes are required to quote the source, whether it is another Tiktok video or a third-party website.
The company begins its experiment, allowing users in the USA Register become participants. Blot depositors should be 18 years old and older, taking into account at least 6 months and without a recent history, violation of the leading principles of the community. Over the next few months, participants will be able to start writing notes and rating notes from others. Several months have passed before any footnotes appear publicly in the USA. The company did not indicate when the footnotes can turn around all over the world.
Changes occur at a time when the future of Tiktok in the United States is still still unclear. President Donald Trump recently gave the company one more 75-day expansion To conclude a deal that will allow him to stay in the United States. Reports indicate that the White House prefers a deal with the participation of Tiktok Existing American investorsAlthough it is unclear how Trump's tariffs on China influenced negotiations.