A collection of tools that monitor misinformation: Iffy Quotient social media tracker, CoVaxxy tweet chart, NewsWhip top-25 Facebook publishers table, Fact-check Feed aggregator, and this plot of Factual Grades for 245 major news sources by The Factual.
Iffy Quotient: Facebook, Twitter
The Center for Social Media Responsibility (University of Michigan) maintains the Iffy Quotient (not affiliated with this site), a measure of the low-credibility content amplified on Facebook and Twitter, based on trust-ratings by Newsguard and Media Bias/Fact Check). This graph charts the percentage of top 5K social media posts that link to unreliable sources:
Content from “Iffy” sites amplified on Facebook and Twitter
Another way to express their data is "an engagement-weighted version of the Iffy Quotient. Rather than treating all popular URLs as equal, we weight them by the estimated engagement scores."
NewsWhip: Facebook
NewsWhip "tracks and predicts the impact of millions of stories." The chart below uses their API to rank the top 25 publishers by their engagement on Facebook. (English-language content, ranked by number of articles, by likes, shares, and comments for total engagement, grouped by domain; does not include media uploaded to Facebook.) The factual column is the publisher's factual-reporting level, as rated by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Domain | Factual | Articles | Engagement |
---|---|---|---|
dailymail.co.uk | Low | 52,246 | 13,818,198 |
people.com | High | 7,216 | 9,692,508 |
mirror.co.uk | Mixed | 11,661 | 9,437,859 |
bbc.co.uk | (not-rated) | 17,799 | 7,989,474 |
foxnews.com | Mixed | 7,485 | 6,956,802 |
cnn.com | Mixed | 4,224 | 6,429,746 |
thesun.co.uk | Mixed | 14,825 | 5,995,513 |
cbsnews.com | High | 21,644 | 5,753,021 |
today.com | Mostly Factual | 1,756 | 4,813,295 |
dailywire.com | Mixed | 1,203 | 4,706,350 |
manutd.com | (not-rated) | 705 | 4,232,549 |
nytimes.com | High | 4,443 | 4,074,689 |
theguardian.com | Mixed | 6,920 | 4,041,164 |
washingtonpost.com | Mostly Factual | 5,094 | 3,973,735 |
metro.co.uk | Mixed | 7,439 | 3,937,943 |
manchestereveningnews.co.uk | (not-rated) | 4,650 | 3,607,705 |
insider.com | High | 1,626 | 3,462,765 |
variety.com | High | 1,651 | 3,263,997 |
reuters.com | Very High | 12,239 | 3,194,926 |
nbcnews.com | High | 2,565 | 3,176,116 |
npr.org | Very High | 1,844 | 3,004,394 |
huffpost.com | Mixed | 1,727 | 2,839,133 |
nypost.com | Mixed | 6,606 | 2,763,387 |
breitbart.com | Mixed | 6,765 | 2,613,095 |
abcnews.go.com | High | 10,017 | 2,589,407 |
Source: NewsWhip API and NewsWhip Spike |
Fact-check Feed
The Fact-check Feed site has been aggregating articles from a dozen U.S. fact-checkers since 2016 into a searchable archive. Here are the most recent:
- "The unplannedness of the discovery of letting innovation bloom is really, really important."
- Lyndsey Stonebridge’s ‘We Are Free to Change the World’ dumbs down the iconic 20th-century writer.
- The new miniseries explores American identity through the Founding Father’s eight-year diplomatic mission in France.
- Does a still image in a video on social media show the cousin of "Dr. Sebi" being sentenced to prison for supposedly revealing "health secrets"? No, that's not true: A tool used to detect AI-generated images found evidence that the...
- Did Boeing send a "hit squad" to murder two whistleblowers who raised safety alarms about Boeing aircraft? No, that's not true: As of this writing, no credible sources confirmed foul play in the deaths of these two men. While inquiries...
- Do photos circulating on social media prove that pro-Palestinian college protesters in the U.S. are using largely identical tents? No, that's not true: While there is an abundance of green tents at the nationwide protests, images from multiple campuses show...
- On Noem’s bark and DeSantis’ beef.
- At a campaign rally in Michigan, former President Donald Trump promised to build an Iron Dome missile defense system for the U.S. that would serve as "a shield around our country." A post on Threads falsely claimed Trump said the system would be used to "'defend us' from Canada." The post Threads Post Distorts Trump’s […]
- An executive order proves President Joe Biden “isn’t real and isn’t president.”
- Settler colonialism, progressive-style.
Visit the Fact-check Feed (external site) for tens of thousands more articles, by (mainly) U.S. fact-checkers.
Most common words in titles from the past two weeks of fact-checks (286):
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Most-used words in recent fact-check titles. Links go to a Fact-check Feed search (of titles and article text).
Archives
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CoVaxxy: Twitter
The CoVaxxy tool, from the Observatory on Social Media (Indiana University), "visualizes the relationship between COVID-19 vaccine adoption and online (mis)information." Credibility ratings are by Media Bias/Fact Check and Iffy+. Compiled tweets are for the week ending 2022-12-20. The factual column is the publisher's factual-reporting level, as rated by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Domain | Factual | Tweets | |
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washingtonpost.com | Mostly Factual | 5,200 | |
thegatewaypundit.com | Very Low | 2,400 | |
childrenshealthdefense.org | Low | 2,300 | |
theconservativetreehouse.com | Low | 2,300 | |
cdc.gov | Very High | 2,200 | |
judicialwatch.org | Low | 1,700 | |
naturalnews.com | Very Low | 1,600 | |
dailymail.co.uk | Low | 1,500 | |
bitchute.com | Very Low | 1,500 | |
reuters.com | Very High | 1,500 | |
nypost.com | Mixed | 1,000 | |
nytimes.com | High | 940 | |
wsj.com | Mostly Factual | 890 | |
technocracy.news | Very Low | 870 | |
theguardian.com | Mixed | 770 | |
cnn.com | Mixed | 660 | |
theblaze.com | Mixed | 590 | |
thehighwire.com | Low | 540 | |
foxnews.com | Mixed | 510 | |
npr.org | Very High | 460 | |
zerohedge.com | Low | 450 | |
who.int | High | 360 | |
newswars.com | Low | 350 | |
gellerreport.com | Low | 340 | |
usatoday.com | High | 340 | |
usawatchdog.com | Low | 320 | |
apnews.com | Very High | 280 | |
newspunch.com | Very Low | 250 | |
msnbc.com | Mixed | 190 | |
dailycaller.com | Mixed | 170 | |
thelibertydaily.com | Mixed | 170 | |
independent.co.uk | Mixed | 160 | |
globaltimes.cn | Mixed | 160 | |
breitbart.com | Mixed | 150 | |
ukcolumn.org | Low | 130 | |
infowars.com | Very Low | 130 | |
thenationalpulse.com | Mixed | 120 | |
globalresearch.ca | Low | 110 | |
chinadaily.com.cn | Mixed | 98 | |
newstarget.com | Low | 95 | |
davidicke.com | Very Low | 90 | |
newsweek.com | High | 85 | |
wnd.com | Low | 82 | |
dailywire.com | Mixed | 80 | |
cbn.com | (not-rated) | 79 | |
time.com | High | 78 | |
activistpost.com | Low | 74 | |
washingtontimes.com | Mixed | 73 | |
pjmedia.com | Mixed | 72 | |
gnews.org | Low | 68 | |
Source: OSoMe CoVaxxy |
COVID States Project: 2020 tweets
The COVID States Project charted the fake-news sites with the most COVID-related Twitter shares in 2020.
Digital New Deal: Facebook, Twitter
The Digital New Deal, a project of The German Marshall Fund of the United States, "monitors engagement on social media with deceptive sites that masquerade as journalism." Deceptive sites are identified by NewsGuard reviews.