To add context to videos, social media behemoth TikTok has launched Footnotes: a crowd-sourced fact-checking feature similar to the “community notes” used by X and Meta. TikTok’s version though, takes a different approach – complementing its professional fact-checking, and not replacing it. It is trialling first in the US, where its future currently hangs in the balance, as the deadline for its US divestiture is just months away. Vedika Bahl tells us what we know, in this edition of Truth or Fake.
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