TikTok Trusts You to Police Its Misinformation Circus!
TikTok is turning fact-checkers into footnote heroes with its new 'footnotes' feature letting users flag misleading videos. As Erica Ruzic said, 'We will let our users decide what they're deeming an authoritative source to begin,' which is basically crowdsourcing chaos for fact-checking fame! With 80,000 eager participants and no clear quality control yet, this community-powered misinformation spotter arrives just as TikTok skyrockets as a news source for Millennials and Gen Z alike. The slogan might as well be: 'If it goes viral in an hour, we hope footnotes keep up!' What a blessing for digital democracy!
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TikTok's new 'footnotes' lets users fact-check videos because who else better to handle truth than millions of internet keyboard warriors? What could possibly go wrong? #CrowdsourcedChaos
Who needs professional fact-checkers when you have TikTok's footnotes? Watching misinformation collide with public opinion is the funniest show on the internet, and admission is free!
TikTok just made misinformation a group project. Imagine trusting the internet's wildest fact-checkers, aka your neighbor's conspiracy theory-loving uncle. Comedy gold or disaster? Both!
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 7/30/2025 | Author: Dan Whateley
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