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: Texas Showdown
  Republican Paxton Agonistes enter the chat.
• The Dispatch: Can Cooper Break the GOP’s Grip on North Carolina Senate Seats?
  Democrats are banking on the former governor to continue his winning streak in an increasingly red state.
• The Dispatch: Gerrymandering Is Normal
  It wasn’t a problem for Democrats—until Republicans got good at it.
• The Dispatch: Factionalism Yesterday, Polarization Today
  A Madisonian approach to the modern problem of American politics.
• FactCheck.org: RFK Jr. Justifies Cuts to mRNA Vaccine Projects With Falsehoods
  In justifying the government's termination of $500 million in funding for mRNA vaccine projects, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. falsely claimed mRNA vaccines "fail to protect effectively" against COVID-19 and suggested they are unsafe. The mRNA shots saved millions of lives during the COVID-19 pandemic and have shown promise against influenza. […]
• The Dispatch: Rigged
  Texas, redistricting, and the point of no return.
• PolitiFact: Threads posts – Yes, sections of the Constitution were missing on a government website. No, it didn’t change US law.
  The official U.S. government website erased sections of the U.S. Constitution without amending it.
• Lead Stories: What We Know About Claims That ‘Trump Burger’ Owner Roland Beainy Is Being Deported
  Is Roland Beainy, the co-owner of Trump Burger restaurants in Texas, being deported? Here is what we know: A spokesperson for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement department told Lead Stories that ICE officers arrested Beainy on May 16, 2025,...
• PolitiFact: John Blust – The U.S. Census counts noncitizens. Did that give Democrats ‘24 more seats’ in Congress?
  “Democrats have 24 more seats (in Congress) than they would have if illegal aliens were not counted in the census.”
• News Facts Network: Michigan Judge Allows Librarian’s Defamation Suit Against Moms for Liberty Member to Proceed
  A Kent County judge has denied a motion to dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed by The post Michigan Judge Allows Librarian’s Defamation Suit Against Moms for Liberty Member to Proceed appeared first on News Facts Network.

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 (355):

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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

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.