TikTok is trialing ‘Footnotes,’ its equivalent of Community Notes.

TikTok is testing out Footnotes, which is effectively its version of X’s Community Notes. The company announced the new feature on Wednesday in a blog post on its platform. TikTok is just the latest social media site to introduce its own version of Community Notes, joining major players like Facebook and Instagram. The goal is to foster a community of users that can help combat misinformation. In the post announcing the feature, TikTok wrote:

“Footnotes will draw on the collective knowledge of the TikTok community by allowing people to add relevant information to content on our platform. To start, this feature will be tested in the U.S. for short-form videos. It will enhance our suite of measures that help people understand the reliability of content and access authoritative sources, including our content labels, search banners, our fact-checking program, and more.” U.S. users can apply to become Footnotes contributors but must meet certain requirements, including being on the platform for over six months, being 18 or older, and having no recent violations of community guidelines.

The tool will rely on users rating the helpfulness of different Footnotes. TikTok explained: “Footnotes will use a bridge-based ranking system designed to find agreement between people who usually have different opinions, inspired by the open-sourced system employed by various platforms. It works by allowing contributors with differing perspectives to leave and vote on the helpfulness of a footnote. Only footnotes that meet the threshold for ‘helpful’ will be visible to the community, at which point the broader community can vote on it as well. The more footnotes that are written and rated on different topics, the smarter and more effective the system becomes.” While the exact launch date for Footnotes is not clear, TikTok noted that access to the tool will open in the “coming months.”