TikTok, like several other major social media platforms, is now turning to users to help fight misinformation.

The popular video-sharing app announced Wednesday that users accepted into its pilot program can start providing additional context to short videos and rate other users’ comments as part of the new Footnotes feature.

TikTok first announced in April that it was testing Footnotes, opening up applications for users to become contributors in the pilot.

“Footnotes draws on the collective knowledge of the TikTok community by allowing people to add relevant information to content on our platform,” the platform said.

Much like the Community Notes programs at both X and Meta, only Footnotes that are deemed helpful by enough contributors who typically have differing opinions will become

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