{"id":951261,"date":"2025-07-31T07:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T02:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=951261"},"modified":"2025-07-31T08:00:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T02:30:39","slug":"tiktok-asks-users-to-help-police-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/31\/tiktok-asks-users-to-help-police-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok asks users to help police misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok will soon let some of its users help fight misinformation on the app, it said Wednesday, following similar moves from Meta and social platform X. <\/p>\n<p>With a new feature, Footnotes, TikTok will let a select group of users add context and background information to some of the short videos on the app, along with links to the information&#8217;s sources. That group &#8212; for now, nearly 80,000 qualified users &#8212; will be able to rate those notes for helpfulness. Those with the highest ratings will be displayed at the bottom of all US users&#8217; screens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok will soon let some of its users help fight misinformation on the app, it said Wednesday, following similar moves from Meta and social platform X. With a new feature, Footnotes, TikTok will let a select group of users add context and background information to some of the short videos on the app, along with links to the information&#8217;s sources. That group &#8212; for now, nearly 80,000 qualified users &#8212; will be able to rate those notes for helpfulness. Those with the highest ratings will be displayed at the bottom of all US users&#8217; screens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}