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 Community Notes-like feature that will allow contributors to add “more context” to videos on the platform.<br /> “Footnotes offers a new opportunity for people to share their expertise and a [...]
School policies around phone use are changing—and fast. In Ontario, Canada students are already being asked to keep their phones out of sight during class. Several European countries have taken steps in that direction, and now discussion is building in the U.S. as well. Lawmakers are pushing similar restrictions, with two senators introducing a bill […]<br /> The post Locking Up Phones, [...]