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:
- Does a video show Adm. Rachel L. Levine, the assistant secretary of health and human services, performing what is described as a pagan ritual? No, that's not true: A reverse image search revealed that the woman in the video is...
- Did billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman post on Bluesky that he suggests acquiring that platform to shut it down to "prevent further fracturing of the town square"? No, that's not true: The viral image showed a fake post from...
- Did President-elect Donald Trump say that if he was elected, he would personally have Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrested if Trudeau sets one foot in the United States? No, that's not true: This is an AI-generated voiceover that has...
- Fox News reported California Gov. Gavin Newsom “will withhold” California’s federal income tax.
- Trump doesn’t care about the precedents he’s setting.
- Biden has acted within the scope of his executive authority.
- Bragg’s apple cider vinegar uses Bill Gates’ ‘Apeel’ apples, which harm the body.
- “ABC issued an official statement confirming that Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg’s contracts will not be renewed.”
- Did Rep. Adam Schiff pay a "boy's family" $7.6 million in damages for "an incident"? No, that's not true: A 2022 article in a self-described satire website with the disclaimer, "Everything on this website is fiction" originated this. There is...
- “NCAA shifts all medals from Lia Thomas to Riley Gaines.”
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 (296):
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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.
| Domain | Factual | Tweets | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
