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.

Just hours after Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg announced last Tuesday that the social media giant would eliminate its US-based fact-checkers, the iconic hills above Los Angeles began to smolder. As fire ...

Meta will no longer have any fact-checkers in the U.S. come Monday, according to chief global affairs officer Joel Kaplan. Meta announced this significant policy change in January when it also ...

The Footnotes will add extra context to videos across TikTok for users based in the US. The Footnotes will add extra context to videos across TikTok for users based in the US. is a news writer who ...