With over 80,000 users awaiting to be contributors, TikTok’s newest feature aims to make the app a safer place—if it gets it right. For all of those doomscrolling on TikTok, a new feature is here to bring additional context to videos,

Community Notes are social media platforms' new favorite it-item. X has them. Meta has them. And now, they're coming to TikTok.

TIKTOK has released the Footnotes feature, a user-participatory fact-checking system. This feature is similar to X's Community Notes feature. " Footnotes draws on the collective knowledge of the TikTok community by allowing people to add relevant information to content on our platform ," TikTok shared in its newsroom on Wednesday, July 30, 2025.