The crowd-sourced approach to moderation, where users add additional context to posts, has become increasingly popular on social media networks after X (then called Twitter) first launched it in 2021.

Add TikTok to the growing list of social media services with a Community Notes feature. The video app on Wednesday said it is launching its own version of the feature — first made famous by X and ...

As TikTok continues to wait for a deal that will secure its future in the United States, the company is embracing a crowd-sourced approach to fact-checking. The service is adding “Footnotes,” a ...

About a year or so ago I began to think about footnotes. First I wondered if I should write footnotes for the film (NUTS!) I was in the final stages of completing. Then I wondered if footnotes might ...

For all of those doomscrolling on TikTok, a new feature is here to bring additional context to videos, regardless of what weird side of TikTok you might find yourself on. Alongside a series of new ...

While early features were basic, Google Docs now offers a rich range of tools including the useful ability to add footnotes. Essential in academic writing and useful for clarification in documents ...

Whether footnotes in legal writing (whether briefs or opinions) are necessary and/or appropriate is a longstanding controversy. Opinions are mixed, and it is difficult to discern a consensus. Some say ...