To add context to videos, social media behemoth TikTok has launched Footnotes: a crowd-sourced fact-checking feature similar to the "community notes" used by X and Meta. TikTok's version though, takes a different approach -- complementing it's professional fact-checking, and not replacing it. It is trialling first in the US, where it's future currently hangs in the balance, as the deadline for its US divestiture is just months away.