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:

• FactCheck.org: FactChecking Claims in Casey Means’ Surgeon General Confirmation Hearing
  During her confirmation hearing to become surgeon general, Dr. Casey Means had various back-and-forths with senators, who pressed her on topics related to vaccines, her qualifications and disclosure of her conflicts of interest. We looked into the sometimes-dueling claims from Means and the senators. The post FactChecking Claims in Casey Means’ Surgeon General Confirmation Hearing […]
• Full Fact: Footage of 2015 fire shared with false claims it shows Iran attacking Dubai
  A video of a burning high-rise building is circulating with false claims it shows a CIA base in Dubai after an Iranian strike. But it’s actually an old clip of an apartment fire.
• Full Fact: Type 45 destroyers such as HMS Dragon can shoot down incoming missiles
  Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch claimed at Prime Minister’s Questions that Type 45 destroyers “cannot take out incoming missiles”, but that isn’t correct.
• Full Fact: Missile strikes video does not show recent attack on Dubai
  Footage shared with claims it shows missiles hitting Palm Jumeirah in Dubai actually dates back to at least 2024.
• Full Fact: Video of blaze doesn’t show aftermath of drone attack on US embassy in Saudi Arabia
  The Saudi Arabian government confirmed a “limited” fire at the embassy on 3 March after drone strikes, but the footage being shared predates that attack.
• Full Fact: Is inflation up or down under Labour?
  Whether Rachel Reeves or Mel Stride is right depends on the time period you’re looking at, because inflation has fallen recently, but is still higher than it was at the last general election.
• Full Fact: AI image of the USS Abraham Lincoln on fire shared online
  A picture supposedly showing the USS Abraham Lincoln on fire has been shared hundreds of times online. But it isn’t real.
• Lead Stories: Fact Check: Fake Image Of Destroyed Early Warning AN/FPS-132 Radar In Qatar — The 360-Degree Radar Looks Nothing Like That
  Does a viral photo show the damage from an airstrike against an early warning radar system in Qatar? No, that's not true: This picture is fake and does not show the radar system in question. There are many differences between...
• FactCheck.org: Assessing Trump’s Claims on Iran’s Nuclear and Missile Capabilities
  In discussing his reasoning for launching U.S. airstrikes on Iran, President Donald Trump said, "An Iranian regime armed with long-range missiles and nuclear weapons would be a dire threat to every American." But arms control experts have disputed his claim that Iran "soon" could have missiles capable of reaching the U.S., and they say there's […]
• PolitiFact: Donald Trump – Trump criticized regime change as 'reckless' policy for years. Now he wants it in Iran.
  On the US seeking regime change

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 (170):

2026 address ai ai-generated american andrew attack burning clickbait does donald epstein fact-checking fake fire he his hockey house image iran iranian isn't it's khamenei leader maxwell media million missile much old online other over people photo photos pictures plane post posts real say school show showing shows social state strikes tariffs trump trump's u.s. union us video white

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.