TikTok is officially rolling out Footnotes, a community fact-checking program that’s supposed to add helpful context to videos. With this update, US-based users will start seeing Footnotes on videos in the coming weeks, and will also get the option to rate them.
After allowing people to join the Footnotes pilot in April, TikTok says almost 80,000 users in the US have qualified to become contributors, allowing them to write and rate notes on videos. When contributors agree that a footnote is…