Tiktok introduces new parent controls, fact checks and AI moderation features
Tiktok is introducing a new suite of parental controls, community notes and AI-enhancing aimed at making its short video social media platform for teens safer, the company said in a press release Wednesday.
Family Pailing, a feature that allows parents to monitor their teenage Tiktok accounts, now notifies parents when teens upload videos, stories, or photos. It also lets parents know how teens characterize the topics they have chosen to fill their feed.
Tiktok has long allowed parents to time limit their teenage accounts. Now, in a happy mission, Tiktok says that this app will help you build positive reinforcement habits. It was created through that collaboration Global Youth Council The app, an expert at the Digital Wellness Lab at Boston Children’s Hospital, offers teen badges to complete welfare experiences within a specific app.
Creators also have some new tools to use. Tiktok has introduced AI tools to ease the comment section and make the overall experience more comfortable. This includes Creator Care Mode, with the help of AI, which learns what types of comments the creators hate and automatically starts filtering. While doing Tiktok Live Stream, creators can quite a mix of certain emojis and phrases that can be used for shaming or harassment.
For creators with large followers, the creator’s inbox helps curate messages, allowing creators to manage their inbox and bulk chat with their fans. This is unlike Instagram’s broadcast channel feature, and it sends a message to many people. This chat room allows all members to chat with each other.
Given the influx of misinformation online, Tiktok is considering adopting a similar model of X and Meta. This feature is called footnotes and works similarly Community Notes feature on x and Facebook. Footnotes are launched as a US pilot, and those who sign up for the Contributor Community Program will help them see if the information found in the post is accurate.
Unlike the meta, which thoroughly checked the team earlier this year, Tiktok maintains a team that checks the facts and pushes its footnotes into fact verification that it is a supplement rather than a solution. Tiktok works with 20 international fact-check network check partners in 60 languages that exceed over 130 markets.
Tiktok referenced a blog post when asked to comment.
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