IGTV and Facebook Live are blind spots in Facebook's election misinformation fight

Thanks to labeling and fact checking, President Trump is having more trouble than usual spewing his lies on Facebook and Twitter. But his followers are happy to take up the mantle, falsely alleging voter fraud and making premature declarations of victory, on parts of the internet that are more difficult to moderate.

That includes the ecosystem of election-related content on IGTV, Instagram's video portal. While IGTV videos get posted to users' feeds, they also appear in designated IGTV tabs, both in the explore tab and on some users' profiles; this is where the lack of labeling occurs. Mashable found that Instagram does not as consistently or readily apply labels — whether general information about the election, and in some cases, labels warning about potentially false statements — when viewers navigate to IGTV videos within IGTV tabs. Read more...