Disinfo Dashboard

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.

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 Dispatch: Dispatch Politics Roundup: Focus on Virginia
  Your weekly roundup from Washington, D.C.
• Full Fact: Official child obesity figures include tens of thousands of children who aren’t clinically obese
  Ministers and the NHS have repeatedly said one in five children leave primary school obese—but data obtained by Full Fact casts doubt on that claim.
• The Dispatch: The Shutdown Drags On
  Federal funds are drying up for military troops and food stamp recipients.
• Full Fact: Video falsely claims pensions will have to be withdrawn within two days to avoid fines
  A video circulating online wrongly claims pensioners could lose 20% of their money if they don’t withdraw their pensions within two days.
• Full Fact: Image shared with claims it shows Jamaican hospital destroyed by Hurricane Melissa is fake
  An image supposedly showing damage caused by Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica isn’t real and was very likely made using AI.
• The Dispatch: Prophets Without Honor | Interview: Erick Erickson
  Jonah hates being a grown up.
• The Dispatch: All About Substantive Due Process
  Will Obergefell fall?
• The Dispatch: What Would Regime Change in Venezuela Look Like?
  As the Trump administration signals its intent to oust the country’s leader, the possible outcomes are risky.
• The Dispatch: We, Sharpie
  It takes a global supply chain to make a permanent marker, regardless of where it’s assembled.
• The Dispatch: When Urban Crime Requires Federal Intervention
  When local authorities fail to maintain public safety, Washington can and should fill the gap.

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 (231):

£10 2025 ai all autism ballroom chicago claims clip do does donald fake fda food footage government guard house hurricane interview isn't it's it's kings man melissa million national need new october pay people photo point political president real rfk said satire selling show shows shutdown story there they trump trump's u.s. uk us vance video white why |

Most-used words in recent fact-check titles. Links go to a Fact-check Feed search (of titles and article text).

Archives

These projects are now longer updating.

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.

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.